Brown v. Bradshaw

The appellants (Brown) 1 own a building in Gaithersburg which, on 18 March 1955, was leased to the appellee (Bradshaw) for a term of 5 years. According to Bradshaw the building soon became too small for his expanding business. He acquainted Brown with his problem. Brown, being both sympathetic and cooperative, employed an architect to develop plans which would have doubled the size of the building but, said Brown, “it worked out to more money than Mr. Bradshaw w’anted to tackle” and he [Bradshaw] “backed away from it.” Bradshaw thought he might be able to solve the problem himself if he could…