Alberstadt v. Alberstadt

This is yet another attempted appeal in an equity case from the Circuit Court for Montgomery County in which the chancellor delivered an oral opinion not followed by a written order or decree. 1 Although no motion to dis miss was made by the appellee, we must once again belabor the point that we will not entertain an appeal in equity when there is no written order or decree signed by the chancellor.

As Judge Singley pointed out in Mattingly v. Houston, 252 Md. 590, 593, 250 A. 2d 633 (1969) :

“We have had occasion in the past to point out that an appeal will properly lie only from a written…