Richardson v. Hall
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City : This was an action of damages instituted by the appellant on the 5th May 1851?-. The declaration stated, “that the defendants wrongfully deprived the plaintiff of the use and possession of the plaintiff’s goods, that is to say, one hundred barrels of flour.”
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City : This was an action of damages instituted by the appellant on the 5th May 1851?-. The declaration stated, “that the defendants wrongfully deprived the plaintiff of the use and possession of the plaintiff’s goods, that is to say, one hundred barrels of flour.” To this the defendants pleaded “that the flour mentioned therein was taken hv the sheriff of Baltimore City, under and by virtue of an attachment on warrant issued out of this Court, commanding him to take the goods and chattels of certain parties trading under the firm and style of…
1Opinion of the Court
Bartol, J.,
delivered the .opinion of this 'Court:
The record in this case presents for óur decision,, only, -questions of pleading. The appeal was taken from a judgment of the Superior Court, sustaining the defendants’ demurrer to the replication, and brings before us for examination the whole proceedings, it being the office and effect of-a. demurrer to carry the Court back to the first error.
The suit was-an action of damages brought by the appellant, and the forms of proceedings are governed by .the Act of 1856, ch. 112.
First. The declaration. To this three objections have been urged by the…
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