Davis v. Hamblin
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Worcester County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The certificates of acknowledgment and of enrolment of the deed, mentioned in the opinion, are as follows: State of Maryland, Worcester County, to wit: Be it remembered, that on the day and year first within written, personally appeared Littleton Davis, before us, the subscribers, two justices of the peace for the county and State aforesaid, and acknowledged the within deed or…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Worcester County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The certificates of acknowledgment and of enrolment of the deed, mentioned in the opinion, are as follows: State of Maryland, Worcester County, to wit: Be it remembered, that on the day and year first within written, personally appeared Littleton Davis, before us, the subscribers, two justices of the peace for the county and State aforesaid, and acknowledged the within deed or instrument of writing to be his act and deed, and the land and premises therein mentioned, and thereby bargained and…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, J.
The appellants, (plaintiffs below,) heirs of Mary Davis, deceased, instituted an action of ejectment, in the Circuit Court for Worcester County, against the appellees, heirs of one John Hamblin, on the 29th of May, 1878, to recover certain lands in the declaration mentioned. At the trial of the cause below, it being admitted that Mary Davis was a feme covert, and the wife of Littleton Davis, and *536possessed, in fee in her own right, during the coverture, of the land in controversy together with her husband, and that she died feme covert and intestate, on the 29th of July, 1851, her husband…
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