Hubbard's Pier & Seafood, Inc. v. Rock Hall Clam & Oyster Co.

Whether Hubbard’s Pier and Seafood, Inc. and Albert W. Woodfield (Lessors) or Rock Hall Clam & Oyster Co., Inc., Peter John Markos, Euripedes John Markos, and Evangelos John Markos (Lessees) are entitled to $1605 being held by the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Maryland depends upon the construction given a clause in a lease drafted by Lessors’ attorney and executed on 7 May 1965.1 The clause, paragraph 3, reads:

*439“It is mutually agreed that any oyster shells resulting from the Lessee’s oyster operation will belong to the Lessor herein, subject, however, to the necessary share…