Case Name: GERTRUDE SULLIVAN vs. FRANK NOVAK and FLORENCE NOVAK
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1916-05-05
Citations: 128 Md. 697
Docket Number: 
Parties: GERTRUDE SULLIVAN vs. FRANK NOVAK and FLORENCE NOVAK.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland Reports
Volume: 128
Pages: 697–697

Head Matter:
GERTRUDE SULLIVAN vs. FRANK NOVAK and FLORENCE NOVAK.
Trusts', invalid; title by adverse possession.
Where legatees to whom invalid devises of land have been made have entered upon the property and exercised exclusive lights of possession over it, openly, notoriously and adversely, for a period exceeding that necessary to give title by adverse possession, they may acquire title by adverse possession, and an otherwise valid contract for the sale of the property may be specifically enforced.
Decided May 5th, 1916.
Appeal from Circuit Court No, 2 of Baltimore City. (Heitisler, <T.) The facts are substantially the same as in the case of Novak v. Orphans’ Home, Etc., 123 Md. 166.
The' cause was argued before Boyd, C. J., Brjrcoe, Burke, Thomas, Patttsoy, Uryer, Stockbridge and Coy■RTABEE, JJ.
W. Herman Siskind, for the appellant.
John M. Requardt, for the appellees.

Opinion:
Constable, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court of Appeals affirming the decree of the lower Court.