Whitaker v. McDaniel

In this case the appellee filed his bill against the appellants in the Circuit Court for Cecil County, alleging therein that in 1865 his father, Delaplaine McDaniel, the owner of a large tract of land in Cecil County, Maryland, gave to him four acres thereof with shore rights and a right of way from these lands over those of the father to the public highway; that the appellee at once took possession of the same, erected a house therein and has continuously resided thereat ever since said time, and has expended a large sum of money in the way of repairs and improvements made thereon. That he…