Strawbridge v. Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Howard County. Debt, brought on the loth of March 1S58, by the appellee against Strawbridge and bis sureties, upon a bond given to the plaintiff.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Howard County. Debt, brought on the loth of March 1S58, by the appellee against Strawbridge and bis sureties, upon a bond given to the plaintiff. Plea, nil debet, with an agreement that thereunder all defences may be taken which might be availed of under any form of pleading, and all evidence admitted which would be admitted under any statement of breaches and any pleas filed in the case, and that the defendants shall, each of them, have all advantage they might have if they had severed in pleading. Exception. The bond and the facts of the case are fully…
1Opinion of the CourtBartol, J.
Just prior to the 9th of April 1853, Isaac S. Strawbridge, one of the appellants, was appointed “ticket and freight agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, at Ellicotls Mills.” On the 9th of April 1853, he and the other appellants executed and delivered to the rail road company the bond upon which this action was instituted. The penalty of the bond is $3,000; and after a short recital of the fact that Strawbridge had been “appointed by the said company, as ticket and freight agent at Ellicotts Mills,” the condition is stated in these words: “that if the said Isaac S. Strawbridge do…
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