I. W. Berman Properties v. Porter Bros.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that trial court could have considered that “appellant had not undertaken, at any time up until the verdict to make a tender, even of the $38,582.29 concededly owed the appellee under its theory of the case”
• “[an appellate court] will not reverse for an error by the lower court unless the error is ‘both manifestly wrong and substantially injurious.’ ”
• prejudgment interest recoverable as matter of right under contracts in writing to pay money on certain day
• “If the contractual obligation be unilateral and is to pay a liquidated sum of money at a certain time, interest is almost universally allowed from the time when its payment was due.”
• “[t]he law in Maryland with reference to interest is well settled. The general rule is that interest should be left to the discretion of the [trial court],” quoting Affiliated Distillers Brands Corp. v. R.W.L. Wine & Liquor Co., 213 Md. 509, 132 A.2d 582 (1957)
• prejudgment interest discretionary in construction contract dispute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).