Gwynn v. Jones' Lessee
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Harford County Court. This was an action of Ejectment, brought by the appellee (the plaintiff in the Court below) against the appellant, (the defendant in that Court) for attract of JUnd called Expectation. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and took defence on warrant.
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Appeal from Harford County Court. This was an action of Ejectment, brought by the appellee (the plaintiff in the Court below) against the appellant, (the defendant in that Court) for attract of JUnd called Expectation. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and took defence on warrant. Plots were made and returned. 1. At the trial, the plaintiff proved to the jury, that one James Norris was seized in fee of the tract of land called Expectation, in the declaration mentioned,'on the 9th of June, 1774, and also gave in evidence the following writ of ad quod damnum, the inquisition, and return…
1Opinion of the Court
Earle J.
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case must be reversed, and returned to Harford County Court on a procedendo. The deed from Me Comas to Jones, is a link in the chain of the plaintiff’s title, and the original was read without offering proof of the hand writing of the Clerk, who endorsed the time it was received into the office, which was indispensable to laying it before the jury. The omission, it is likely, was not observed at *183the trial, but as it is seen by us, and being a case before the act of 1825, ch. 117, we must notice the error, and make it the ground of a reversal. 7…
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