Winchester v. Baltimore & Susquehanna R. R.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Equity Side of the Superior Court of Baltimore city. The allegations of the bill in this case, -which was filed by the appellants against the appellee, on the 16th of December 1852, are sufficiently stated in the opinion of this court.The injunction was granted as prayed.
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Appeal from the Equity Side of the Superior Court of Baltimore city. The allegations of the bill in this case, -which was filed by the appellants against the appellee, on the 16th of December 1852, are sufficiently stated in the opinion of this court.The injunction was granted as prayed. The answer, which, was made under oath and filed on the 8th of January 1853, denies all notice, either actual or constructive, of the conveyance to Mrs. Winchester, and sets up the defence that the company was a bona fide purchaser without notice. It admits that George Winchester was president of the company…
1Opinion of the Court
Le Grand, C. J,,
delivered the opinion of this court.
This is an appeal from an order of the Superior court of *238Baltimore city dissolving an injunction, -which had been previously granted by that court on the filing of the bill of the appellants.
The equity of the bill may be stated thus: — it avers and charges, that George Winchester, the former husband of one of the parties, becoming possessed of a portion of the separate estate of his wife, invested it in real estate lying in York county, Pennsylvania, taking a deed for the same in his own name; that this occurred in the year 1830; that the…
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