Cape Sable Co. Case
High Court of Chancery of Maryland
This bill was filed on the 4th of January, 1823, by Addison Ridowt, Joseph Jubere, John J. Gibson, Ann O. Gibson, John L. Tilghman and Maria E. his wife, and Horatio Gibson, against The Cape Sable Company, Richard Catón, Robert Oliver and John Oliver.
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This bill was filed on the 4th of January, 1823, by Addison Ridowt, Joseph Jubere, John J. Gibson, Ann O. Gibson, John L. Tilghman and Maria E. his wife, and Horatio Gibson, against The Cape Sable Company, Richard Catón, Robert Oliver and John Oliver. This bill sets forth, that these plaintiffs had, on the sixth of August, 1822, filed a bill in this court against these defendants, The Cape Sable Company and Richard Catón, and also against Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Alexander Mitchell and William McMechen, for the purpose of obtaining payment of certain large sums of money, &c.; that by an…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, Chancellor.
An injunction issued in this case to prevent the sale of the properly of The Cape Sable Company, taken in execution under a judgment obtained by Robert and John Oliver against the company, in Anne Arundel County Court. To the bill Sled, on which the injunction was ordered, the Olivers have answered; and, at the present term, the motion to dissolve the injunction was elaborately argued. Since the argument the case has been maturely considered. It is a cause of a novel description, demanding full reflection, not only from the character of the case, but from its importance in…
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