Baden v. Castle

This appeal arises out of a controversy over 8.51 acres of real property in Prince George’s County, improved by a dwelling and encumbered by a mortgage to the First National Bank of Southern Maryland and by two deeds of trust securing the Small Business Administration of the United States of America and The Home Bank of Sutton, West Virginia. The adversaries are a mother, age 71 at the time of the proceedings below, and daughter, then 51 — both of whom have had substantial experience in the real estate title field as title abstractors. The principal determination reached by the Chancellor…