Antietam-Sharpsburg Museum, Inc. v. William H. Marsh, Inc.

We shall be concerned here with an erstwhile landlord’s right to collect from his former tenant unpaid rent which accrued prior to the transfer of title to the purchaser. It may all seem somewhat frivolous when one reflects that 106 years ago the possession of the'demised premises was disputed by over 100,000 men, 20>000 of whom enriched its soil with their blood.

In’ 1962 appellant (the Museum) was the owner of the 200 acre “Piper Farm” which lies within the Antietam-Sharpsburg battlefield and through a part of which runs the “Sunken Road,” sometimes called “Bloody Lane.” In January 1962 the…