Gebhardt & Smith, L.L.P. v. Maryland Port Administration
This appeal arises from a dispute between Gebhardt & Smith LLP (“Gebhardt & Smith”), appellant, and the Maryland Port Administration (“MPA”), appellee, over a lease (“Lease”) for office space in the Baltimore World Trade Center (“WTC”). The Lease required that the tenant, Gebhardt & Smith, pay to the landlord, the MPA, base rent plus a proportional share of the building’s operati... More...
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Joseph M. Della Ratta, et al. v. Edward J. Dyas, Jr.
The litigation underlying this appeal arose out of the dispute between the two equal owners of two hotels and a condominium in Ocean City, Maryland. The appellee, Edward J. Dyas, Jr. (Dyas), was the plaintiff below. One of the appellants, Joseph M. Della Ratta (Della Ratta), was a defendant below. We shall refer to Della Ratta and Dyas collectively as "the Developers."
In 1990, Joseph Cooper ("Cooper"), one of the plaintiffs and appellant here, purchased from Berkshire Life Insurance Company ("Berkshire"), one of the appellees, two "vanishing premium" life insurance polices insuring the lives of himself and his wife Annette Cooper. He did so, he asserts, on the basis of misrepresentations by two insurance agents, Thomas Steinhardt and Bernard Fish, also appe... More...
