Legal Opinion

Brown v. Gilmor's Exc'rs

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided December 15, 1855PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Appeal from the Equity Side of the • Superior Court of Baltimore city. ’The appellant was the purchaser at trustee’s sale of a tract of land, and took this appeal from an order of the court below, (Frick, J.,) dismissing his petition and refusing to open the final order of ratification of sale. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of this court.

1Opinion of the CourtMason, J.

On the 28th of October 1853, Jonathan Meredith and John Spear Nichols, Esq’rs., trustees, under a decree of the High Court of Chancery, in the case of Gilmor’s Executors vs. Briens Executors, & others, offered at public sale on the *325premises, in Washington county, amongst other property, a tract of land described in the advertisement thereof, “designated on the plat as Che Summer-House Farm,’ containing about six hundred and eighteen acres, and improved by a dwelling house and other buildings.” William Brown, the present appellant, became the purchaser thereof, at $10 per acre.

The sale, with…

2Cited by16 opinions

  1. Bachrach v. Washington United Cooperative, Inc.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1943
  2. Seth v. ChamberlaineCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1874
  3. Chase v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1908
  4. Forest Lake Cemetery v. BakerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1910
  5. Hickey v. PeckCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1942

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