Wm. H. McCeney, Inc. v. Thibadeau

This appeal is from a decree for specific performance of a contract dated December 8, 1954, to purchase a certain tract of land in Montgomery County, containing about seventeen acres, at a price of $42,500.00. The contract provided that “the title is to be good and marketable * * * or the deposit will be returned to the purchaser.” The vendor subsequently obtained a patent from the State of Maryland, which was recorded among the land records of Montgomery County on July 11, 1956, pursuant to a special warrant dated April 21, 1955, for “vacant” land, under Code (1951), Art. 54, sec. 24. The…