# Kasten Construction Co. v. Rod Enterprises, Inc.

> Court of Appeals of Maryland · March 15, 1973 · 268 Md. 318

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9728319

## Case

- **Full name:** The Kasten Construction Company, Inc. v. Rod Enterprises, Inc.
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Maryland
- **Decided:** March 15, 1973
- **Citations:** 268 Md. 318; 301 A.2d 12
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Murphy
- **Judges:** Levine, Murphy
- **Cited by:** 94 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that “where a contract is plain and unambiguous, there is no room for construction, and it must be presumed that the parties meant what they expressed.”

## Opinion text

Murphy, C. J.,
dissenting: -
Because I think that Rod’s responsibility under the contract to complete “. . . all paving, etc. in regard the streets, etc. of the subdivision” was plainly limited to the $45,000 held in the escrow account, I must respectfully dissent from the view taken by the majority of the Court.
Judges Singley and Smith concur.

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