Emerald Hills Homeowners' Ass'n v. Peters

Property disputes are a prominent aspect of our state’s legal history. From Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, commissioning Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to complete a survey to resolve a colonial boundary dispute, to the United States Supreme Court’s adjudication of an interstate water dispute involving the Potomac River in 2003, 1 Maryland has long recognized the significance of the various rights that attach to property ownership. In this case, we are asked to settle a dispute over an easement — one of the most “complex and archaic bod[ies] of American property law.” Susan F.…