Legal Opinion
Casper v. Chas. F. Smith & Son, Inc.
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 5, 1987No. 1217, 1218, September Term, 1986PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSALYN B. BELL, Judge.
The wisdom contained in Demuth v. Old Town Bank of Baltimore, 85 Md. 315, 319-20, 37 A. 266 (1897), is worth repeating once again:
“This is a case of exceedingly great hardship, and we have diligently, but in vain, sought for some tenable ground upon which the appellants could be relieved from the loss that an affirmance of the decree appealed from will necessarily subject them to. But hard cases, it has often been said, almost always make bad law; and hence it is, in the end, far better that the established rules of law should be strictly applied, even though in…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Council of Co-Owners Atlantis Condominium, Inc. v. Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1986
- Rowley v. Mayor of BaltimoreCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1986
- Corcoran v. Village of LibertyvilleIllinois Supreme Court · 1978
- Bramble v. ThompsonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1972
- Demuth v. Old Town BankCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1897
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3Cited by28 opinions
- District of Columbia v. ColemanDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1995
- Tennant v. Shoppers Food Warehouse MD Corp.Court of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1997
- Casper v. Charles F. Smith & Son, Inc.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1989
- Schroyer v. McNealCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1991
- Rybas v. Riverview Hotel Corp.District Court, D. Maryland · 2014
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