Greenfield v. Heckenbach

In late 1997, Robert D. Greenfield and his wife, Marguerite Greenfield (“the Greenfields”), bought, for 1.6 million dollars, a 24.5 acre improved parcel of land located in Talbot County, Maryland. The sellers of the property were Udo Heckenbach and his wife, Cornelia Heckenbach (“the sellers” or “the Heckenbachs”). Approximately twenty-one months after the purchase of the property, the Greenfields sued the Hecken bachs claiming that, prior to the sale, the Heckenbaehs either fraudulently or negligently misrepresented their development plans for an adjoining parcel of land—which the…