Standard American Homes, Inc. v. Pasadena Building Co.

Standard American Homes, Inc., (Standard Homes or the builder) filed a bill in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County against the Pasadena Building Company (Pasadena Company or the owner) seeking the specific performance of an agreement for the sale of real estate. The chancellor sustained a demurrer to the bill without leave to amend, and Standard Homes appealed.

On January 7, 1957, the parties, having recited that the Pasadena Company was the owner of two tracts of land, one on the Ritchie Highway in Pasadena consisting of approximately forty acres of land known as Dudley Acres, and the…