Wietzke v. Chesapeake Conference Ass'n.

Douglas and Vanessa Wietzke, Petitioners, filed a four-count complaint against the Chesapeake Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists, and various others, 1 Respondents, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County alleging nuisance, trespass, and negligence in connection with the construction of a new parking lot by the Church, which, the Wietzkes claimed, was ultimately the cause of the “repeated and continu[ed] flooding” of their home in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Wietzkes requested some three million dollars in damages against the Church, as well as injunctive relief requiring…