Carroll's Lessee v. Granite Manufacturing Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore county. Ejectment brought by the appellant, to recovera small piece of land described on the plats filed in the case, and in the possession of the appellee.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore county. Ejectment brought by the appellant, to recovera small piece of land described on the plats filed in the case, and in the possession of the appellee. There is no dispute as to title, the controversy being whether the land in question is embraced in the tim'd exception, contained in a deed to Carroll from the Union Bank of Maryland, dated the 30th of October 1844. This deed conveys to Carroll part of a tract of land called '“West Ilchester,” by metes and bounds, which include the land in dispute, but from the operation of that deed three…
1Opinion of the CourtBartol, J.
The record in this case presents for our consideration two questions of evidence; these form the subject of the first, second, and third bills of exceptions.
In the first and third exceptions, the plaintiff offered to prove by William Dawson and by George Ellicott, that when the foundations of the granite factory were being dug, they informed Lansdale, the agent of the manufacturing company, and the workmen engaged in digging, that they were over their lines and on Mr. Carroll’s land; both the witnesses stated that they were not Carroll’s agents, nor authorised by him to make such statement.
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