Denn v. Jones
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s •county. This was an Ejectment, brought February 27th, 1849, by the appellants, for parts of three tracts of land, one called “Moore’s Part of Barbadoes Enlarged,” containing 198 acres, another called “Gedor,” containing 20 acres, and the other called “Gilead,” containing 61-| acres.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s •county. This was an Ejectment, brought February 27th, 1849, by the appellants, for parts of three tracts of land, one called “Moore’s Part of Barbadoes Enlarged,” containing 198 acres, another called “Gedor,” containing 20 acres, and the other called “Gilead,” containing 61-| acres. Defence was taken on warrant, and a warrant of resurvey was issued July 8tb, 1850. By reason of applications to amend the plats and other causes, the case was continued from time to timo, and was not brought to trial until the April term, 1885, of the Court below.…
1Opinion of the CourtBartol, J.
By the Act of 1852, ch. 177, several important changes were made in the law governing proceedings in ejectment, but by the 11th section, all cases then pending were excepted from its operation. Afterwards, when the provisions of the Act of 1852 were incorporated in the Code, it was provided, Article 1, sec. 1, that all suits then pending should he proceeded with, to final judgment as if this Code had not been adopted.
This suit having been instituted before the passage of the Act of 1852, must he governed by the pre-existing law ; neither the provisions of that Act nor of the Code having any…
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