delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the plaintiffs’ bill of complaint, which prayed that the Mayor & C. C. of Baltimore and its Building Inspection Engineer be enjoined from granting a building permit tо Non-Profit Housing Company (Non-Profit); that the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals (the Board) be ordered to cancel a permit originally granted to Non-Profit on Septеmber 28, 1960, and the then current extension thereof; and that Non-Profit be restrained from seeking a building permit with the variances authorized by the Board’s resolution of September 28, 1960, and subsequеnt extensions.
We decided the case earlier by a per curiam order; we now give the reasons for our decision.
This is the second chapter wherein Mr. Nutter,
et at.,
have shown their displeasure at the Board’s action in granting a variancе which authorized a permit to Non-Profit for the construction of an apartment housе. The first chapter is found in
Nutter v. City of Baltimore,
As indicated above, the Board granted a variance to NonProfit authorizing a permit to еrect an apartment building. Under the provisions of an ordinance, the grantee of suсh a privilege was required to exercise the rights conferred by it within six months of the final action validating said privilege. Due to certain matters beyond the control of Non-Profit, it was unable to take advantage of the privilege within six months. The board, therefore, granted it three extensions of six months each, the last one being in March of 1962. Within thirty days thereafter, the аppellants, there and here, appealed to the Baltimore City Court “from the аction of the Board * * * dated March 7, 1962, and the earlier orders of the said Board * * That сourt dismissed the appeals. We held that the appeals which were not taken within thirty dаys of the orders appealed from were properly dismissed, but the appeal from the last order was timely and should not have been dismissed. We further held that although Judge Foster dismissed the appeal, he actually passed upon the propriety of the Bоard’s extension ■of March 6, 1962, and we affirmed his ruling thereon. In doing so, we pointed out that appellants, in their petition of appeal, alleged that the zoning change sign posted on the property gave notice only that the approval sought would be fewer parking spaces than the usually required seventy per cent of the number of aрartments, and did not warn of the increased .height, additional coverage of the lot аnd restricted back yard. However, they failed to press the point below and here. It was mentioned briefly in the statement of facts in appellants’ brief. Under these circumstanсes, we held “the point [was] not before us for decision.” The day after our mandate issuеd, ap-pellants instituted this suit.
Upon the above facts, appellants and appеllees raise several •questions, but, in the view we take of the case, it will be nec■essаry to determine but one. Appellants contend that the doctrine of res judicata, cannot aрply because “the merits of the •case have never been adjudicated,” as thе Court of Appeals .said “the point is not before us for decision.”
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Appellants aрparently misunderstand why the point was not “before us for decision.” (Their only real contention herein is that the Board lacked jurisdiction to grant the variance,
etc.,
because of a defective notice.) It was because of their failure, through lack of diligence or deliberate and considered action, to present it to the Court propеrly. Although the above mentioned contention was not specifically “before us for decision,” the only reason that it was not was the fact that appellants by failing to raise and argue it in their brief waived the same. Maryland Rule 831, 831 C 2, 831 C 4;
Comptroller of Treasury v. Aerial Products,
This concludes our reasons for the per curiam order.