Burgess & Commissioners v. Stocksdale
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Carroll County (Jones, C. J.) The plaintiff’s first prayer, as modified by the Court, instructed the jury as follows : That if they find that the plaintiff was in possession of the land described in the plaintiff’s declaration at the time the acts of trespass complained of in plaintiff’s declaration are alleged to have been committed and claiming the title thereto under the two deeds from Deborah A. Baile, offered in evidence, and if the…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Carroll County (Jones, C. J.) The plaintiff’s first prayer, as modified by the Court, instructed the jury as follows : That if they find that the plaintiff was in possession of the land described in the plaintiff’s declaration at the time the acts of trespass complained of in plaintiff’s declaration are alleged to have been committed and claiming the title thereto under the two deeds from Deborah A. Baile, offered in evidence, and if the jury shall further find that the acts of trespass alleged in the declaration, or any of them, were done by the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtMcSherry, C. J.
This is an action of trespass quare clausum fregit. There are eighteen bills of exception in the record. Seventeen of. them relate to rulings on the admissibility of evidence and one concerns the instruction given by the trial Court and also covers the twenty rejected prayers of the defendant. The facts which gave rise to the controversy are as follows : The pláintiff, Mrs. Eliza J. Stocksdale, is the owner of a house and lot of ground situated in the town of New Windsor in Carroll County. The lot fronts on Church street and rims back to a public lane which is parallel to Church street. On…
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