Trying primarily to states like Connecticut for steering, the Appellate Courtroom of Maryland concluded that financial challenges stemming from COVID-19 government orders themselves aren’t ample to ascertain the affirmative defenses of frustration of goal and authorized impossibility for failure to pay lease.
David and Carolyn Marquis leased an Annapolis, Maryland, property for a restaurant/pub referred to as the Chesapeake Brewing Co. The couple operated the enterprise with out substantial difficulties till the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and when Gov. Larry Hogan issued an government order in March 2020 limiting bars and eating places to carryout orders.
