Bennet Clement's Lessee v. Ruckle
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Allegany county court. This was an action of ejectment brought by the appellant for a tract of land called “Lorrain, ’ ’ containing 600 acres. The defendant the appellee, under the plea of not guilty, took defence upon his title for eight lots, the numbers of which are stated, “lying west of Fort Cumberland the same being part of said tract of land called Lorrain.” 1st* Exception.
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Appeal from Allegany county court. This was an action of ejectment brought by the appellant for a tract of land called “Lorrain, ’ ’ containing 600 acres. The defendant the appellee, under the plea of not guilty, took defence upon his title for eight lots, the numbers of which are stated, “lying west of Fort Cumberland the same being part of said tract of land called Lorrain.” 1st* Exception. The plaintiff offered as his title a patent (an escheat grant) dated the 16th of August 1843, to himself, for twelve lots of land numbered, &c., reduced to one entire tract called a Lorrain.” He also…
1Opinion of the CourtMagruder, J.
The plaintiff brought an action of ejectment in Allegany county court, for a tract of land called Lorrain, and the verdict being against him, he appealed. In the course of the trial he look two bills of exceptions, and whether the court erred in the opinion expressed by it, according to either of those exceptions, we are now to decide.
The plaintiff, to make title to the land claimed by him in his declaration, offered in evidence a patent for that tract of land, granted to himself, and bearing date 16th day of August, 1843. Why he offered in evidence the certificates of the register of the…
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