Metaxas v. J. R. Jarrell Co.

The J. R. Jarrell Company and the Easton Publishing' Company, bodies corporate, owners of adjoining properties in Easton, Md., each filed a bill of complaint in August, 1926, against Peter Metaxas, John Grouzes, and J. Russell Summers, the appellants. Each of these bills alleged that the defendant J. Russell Summers, a contractor and builder, obtained for the other defendants, owners of property adjacent to the property of the J. R. Jarrell Company on the north, a building permit from the mayor and city council of Easton to erect a building on a strip of land, described in the bill as an…