Legal Opinion
Mattingly v. Houston
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 7, 1969No. [No. 121, September Term, 1968.]PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSingley, J.
This case is the end result of a boundary dispute between two neighbors, the Mattinglys and the Houstons, which has been before the Circuit Court for Montgomery County twice and before us in Mattingly v. Houston, 235 Md. 54, 200 A. 2d 160 (1964).
It all began in 1959 when the Mattinglys sold the Houstons a building site and conveyed to them a tract which, as a result of a surveyor’s error, was smaller than that which had been staked out on the ground, so that when the Houstons built their house, there was an encroachment. In 1962, the Houstons brought a bill in equity for the reformation of…
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