Dorsey Bros., Inc. v. Anderson

This dispute is almost identical to the controversy in another case decided this week and both revolve around the weather conditions during the summer of 1969 in which extreme drought and then almost continuous rainfall played havoc with Maryland’s farm community. The other appeal, Friel v. Handley, 264 Md. 433, 287 A. 2d 23 (1972), concerned itself with the problem of harvesting corn during the rainy days of late July and early August. The case now before us, removed from Somerset County to the Circuit Court for Wicomico County (Travers, J.), presents the alternate problem of the drought and…