MESSERSMITH v. RIVERDALE

[No. 9, September Term, 1960.]

223 Md. 323 (1960)

164 A.2d 523

MESSERSMITH ET UX. v. MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF RIVERDALE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 25, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waldo Burnside for the appellants.

Edward B. Dunford for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.


HORNEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Paul L. Messersmith and Isabel E. Messersmith, his wife (the plaintiffs below) and their predecessor in title, having enclosed and maintained an adjoining lot or park owned by the Mayor and Common Council of Riverdale (the defendant below) for more than a third of a century as if it were their own, sought a decree "quieting title" and declaring that they had an "indefeasible...

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