Green Manor Corp. v. Tomares

This Court is once again called upon to decide whether a written document is a bilateral contract or “[o]ne of that strange breed of agreements relating to the sale and purchase of land which flourishes in Montgomery County” that in fact and in law is an option. Dixon v. Haft, 253 Md. 692, 696, 253 A. 2d 715 (1969). The ownership of a $20,000 deposit awarded to the purchasers by the trial court is largely dependent upon this determination. More precisely, we must decide whether an agreement entered into by Aaron Tomares, Robert E. Stein and Ellis Barron, appellees, relating to the purchase of…