Legal Opinion
Rapley v. Montgomery County
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 2, 1971No. [No. 298, September Term, 1970.]PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSingley, J.
In June, 1969, Mr. Rapley and his sister, Mrs. Mac-Martin, the appellants here and plaintiffs below, acquired legal title to Avenel Farm, a tract in Montgomery County, Maryland (the County), some 904 acres of which they transferred in December, 1969 to Sheffield Enterprises, Inc., for a consideration of $4,069,805.72. $3,849,805.72 of the sale price was attributed to the value of the land. The property had been owned and actively farmed since 1945 by a corporation of which the appellants were the sole stockholders and since 1956 had been assessed as land devoted to agricultural use. When the…
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