Griffin v. Merrill
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Equity Side of the. Superior Court of Baltimore city. This appeal was taken from an order of the court below, (Frick, J.,) overruling the demurrers of the appellants to a bill filed against them by the appellee. Each defendant filed a separate demurrer upon the ground of multifariousness.
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Appeal from the Equity Side of the. Superior Court of Baltimore city. This appeal was taken from an order of the court below, (Frick, J.,) overruling the demurrers of the appellants to a bill filed against them by the appellee. Each defendant filed a separate demurrer upon the ground of multifariousness. The bill alleges, in substance, that in February 1847, complainant purchased out the interest of Yreatman and Bayles in a firm composed of Yeatman, Bayles and Griffin, then trading in Baltimore city under the name of G Griffin, Yeatman & Oo.,” each partner being equally interested in the…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
The appellants insist, that the demurrers should have been ruled good, upon the ground that the bill is multifarious. In support of which position they rely, with much confidence, upon White et al., vs. White, 5 Gill, 359. There the bill prayed for an account of the concerns of several distinct partnerships, some of the defendants not having been partners in all the firms; and there being nothing to show that either firm, as such, had any agency in regard to the concerns of the others, or of either of them. Henry White, (one of the defendants,) is said to have been the financier and agent,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- White v. WhiteCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1847
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