Montgomery County v. REVERE NATIONAL CORP., INC.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The issue in this case is whether Montgomery County is bound by the provisions of a settlement agreement incorporated in a circuit court judgment. The agreement, ending sixteen years of litigation between the County and the owner of a billboard company, granted to the owner the right to maintain its billboards within the County for a period of ten years, despite a County zoning regulation prohibiting all billboards. Montgomery County contends that the agreement was void from its inception because it impermissibly undermined legislative and executive discretion in the enactment…