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CROWN OIL AND WAX COMPANY OF DELAWARE, INC. v. GLEN

No. 104, September Term, 1989.

320 Md. 546 (1990)

578 A.2d 1184

CROWN OIL AND WAX COMPANY OF DELAWARE, INC., ET AL. v. GLEN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY OF VIRGINIA, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 11, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Allen Foster (Steven D. Hedges, Patton, Boggs & Blow, Greensboro, N.C., and John A. Moag, Jr., Patton, Boggs & Blow, Baltimore), all on brief, for petitioners.

John Anthony Wolf (John F. Morkan, III, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore), all on brief, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and CHASANOW, JJ.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

"It is an ancient rule of the common law that a person who did not enter into a contract, or succeed to the interest of those who did, has no right of action for its breach, although he sustained damage thereby." Levy v. Glens Falls Indem. Co., 210 Md. 265, 270, 123 A.2d 348, 351 (1956). In this case we examine the concept of a "successor" in the context of steps in the development...

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