Cloverfields Improvement Assoc., Inc. v. Seabreeze Properties, Inc.

Cloverfields Improvement Association, Inc. (Association), one of the appellants, 1 and Seabreeze Properties, Inc. (Seabreeze), the appellee, both claim ownership by separate recorded documents to the same property. Association here contends the assignment to; it vests it with title, while Seabreeze avers the deed it received some six (6) years later is the valid document.

In order to assert its ownership, Association filed a petition for a declaratory decree in the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County. Following an answer by Seabreeze, the matter was submitted on stipulated facts to Judge B.…