Goldstein v. Potomac Electric Power Co.

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• stating in dicta that § 6-103 is a legislatively-created exception to the general statute of limitations contained in § 5-101 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article
• “To acquire by prescription the right to maintain a private nuisance, the user must continue the nuisance for an uninterrupted period of twenty years.”
• statute of limitations ordinarily begins to run “when the plaintiff could have maintained his action to a successful result”
• “The adoption of statutes of limitations reflects a policy decision regarding what constitutes an adequate period of time for a person of ordinary diligence to pursue his claim.”
• “Under Miaryland law, permanent damages, past, present and prospective, for diminution in the market value of land caused by a nuisance can only be recovered if the nuisance is permanent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).