Cooke's Lessee v. Kell
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Ejectment for a lot of ground, forty-one feet front and one hundred and fifty-nine deep, on York street, in the city of Baltimore, being lot No. 17, and part of “Todd’s Range,” brought on the 29th of August 1850, by the appellant against the appellees. Plea No?i Cul. Exception.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Ejectment for a lot of ground, forty-one feet front and one hundred and fifty-nine deep, on York street, in the city of Baltimore, being lot No. 17, and part of “Todd’s Range,” brought on the 29th of August 1850, by the appellant against the appellees. Plea No?i Cul. Exception. The plaintiff proved, that Joseph Bankson, then of the city of Baltimore, was, on the 14th of May 1792, the owner in fee of the lot in question, and on that day executed the following deed therefor, which was, on the same day, duly recorded, in the land records of…
1Opinion of the Court
Le Grand, G. J.,
delivered the opinion of litis court.
This case has been discussed at rhe bar with great fullness of illustration, and the views of the respective counsel, presented with clearness and cogency of reasoning.
To our minda — looking to past and distinctly recognized ad judications — the questions we are called upon to decide are confined within a narrow space. The action is one of ejectment, and the principal facts of the case ¡nay be thus stated:
On the 14th day of May 1792, a certain Joseph Bankson, by deed, conveyed (reserving to himself and wife, and to the survivor of them, a…
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