“HE TOOK BOTH letters, Spig,” Nathan Twohey said. “A month ago. Maybe longer. But the letter itself isn’t essential. If we choose to regard it as in the nature of a contract between you and him for the protection of your property, we have evidence that it does, or did, in fact exist.”
“It’s the fact he took it that’s essential,” Spig O’Leary said dispassionately. “If he knew he was going to sell a month ago, he knew it when he got us to deed him the right-of-way for his fancy road through our woods.”
“We may be able to show fraud in that case. What else we can do . . .” Nat Twohey opened a faded blue file packet. “These are some notes my father made when you bought Plumtree Cove. He refers to Real Estate Company vs. Serio, 156 Md. 229. Our Court of Appeals quoted Murray vs. Greene, 64 Ca
