Hess v. Chalmers

The primary question for decision in this appeal is whether the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (Raine, J.) correctly applied the doctrine of res judicata in granting the appellees’ (respondents’ below) motion for summary judgment. A second question to be decided is the correctness of Judge Raine’s ruling denying appellees’ motion for counsel fees, that question being the subject matter of appellees’ cross-appeal.

In 1963 Helen Lee Dietrich and her husband, George, conveyed a number of parcels of land located in Baltimore County, Baltimore City, and Anne Arundel County to a corporate straw…