Drury v. Conner
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill, filed on the 14th of October 1819, by the appellee against the appellant, stated that William Conner, the father of the complainant, .died intestate in the year 1799 or 1800, seized in fee of a tract of land lying in Jlnne-Arundel county, called Holloway, or Oliver’s Preservation, containing 147 acres, which descended to the complainant, and his brother Marmaduke, and his sisters Harriet, Nancy and Matilda.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill, filed on the 14th of October 1819, by the appellee against the appellant, stated that William Conner, the father of the complainant, .died intestate in the year 1799 or 1800, seized in fee of a tract of land lying in Jlnne-Arundel county, called Holloway, or Oliver’s Preservation, containing 147 acres, which descended to the complainant, and his brother Marmaduke, and his sisters Harriet, Nancy and Matilda. That Henry C. Drury, the defendant, being then in possession of the said tract of land, and holding and claiming it under a certain Frederick…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.
at this term, delivered the opinion of the court. There is a manifest error in the account stated by the auditor, on which the decree in this case is founded. William W. Conner, in his bill of complaint, seeks to recover one fifth of the rents and profits of the land recovered in the action of ejectment mentioned and referred to in the bill, by the five children and heirs at law of William Conner, of whom he is one; one undivided fourth part of which land, waa *228on the 23d of July 1824, since the recovery in ejectment, and pending this cause in chancery, adjudged by a decree of…
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- Shryock v. MorrisCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1891
- Barnes v. CrainCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1849
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- Sindall v. CampbellCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1848
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