Bowie v. Neale
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. A writ of scire facias was issued at the instance of Erancis Reale and James H. Luckett, on a judgment recovered by them against James 8. Morsell and William RT. Dorsett, the writ contained a clause of scire facias against the terre-tenants of the defendants, hut not against the defendants themselves. This writ was returned “scire feci Dorsett, not served on Morsell.”
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. A writ of scire facias was issued at the instance of Erancis Reale and James H. Luckett, on a judgment recovered by them against James 8. Morsell and William RT. Dorsett, the writ contained a clause of scire facias against the terre-tenants of the defendants, hut not against the defendants themselves. This writ was returned “scire feci Dorsett, not served on Morsell.” A second writ was then issued, the nature of which together with the proceedings had thereon are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court. The appellees moved to…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, J.
The motion to dismiss the appeal in this case, must be overruled, as the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and his Chief deputy, have deposed that the record was made out and transmitted at the earliest practicable moment, and that the *131delay in said transmittal, was not caused by the fault, or laches of the appellant, but from the inability of the clerk, to make out the record, from the press of business in the clerk's office, at the time. The appellant, is adefendant in a suit instituted on the 26 May, 1866, by a writ of scire facias, sued out of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, in…
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