Beall v. Black
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Allegany County Court. This was an action upon the case, brought by the appellee against the appellant, on the 15th April 1840. The plaintiff declared, that whereas the said plaintiff on, &c., and long before was, and from thence hitherto hath been, and still is lawfully seized and possessed of a certain close, consisting of lots Nos. 218 and 219, situated on Mechanic street in the town of Cumberland, and a parcel of land being part of the tract called “ Walnut…
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Appeal from Allegany County Court. This was an action upon the case, brought by the appellee against the appellant, on the 15th April 1840. The plaintiff declared, that whereas the said plaintiff on, &c., and long before was, and from thence hitherto hath been, and still is lawfully seized and possessed of a certain close, consisting of lots Nos. 218 and 219, situated on Mechanic street in the town of Cumberland, and a parcel of land being part of the tract called “ Walnut Bottom,” situated on Mill street in said town, through which said close a certain canal, commonly called a “mill race,”…
1Opinion of the CourtStephen, J.
This is an action of trespass on the case, instituted in Allegany county court, for an alleged injury to the plaintiff by overflowing his land, and the damages laid in the nar to amount to the sum of one thousand dollars. The suit was brought after the passage of the act of 1835, chapter 201, establishing magistrates courts in the several counties of this State, and prescribing the limits of their jurisdiction. The jury rendered a verdict for the sum of seventy five dollars, as the amount of damage sustained by the plaintiff, and the defendant by his counsel moved in arrest of judgment, upon…
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