Jones v. Ricketts
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Cecil County. These were two cases between the same parties, tried together in the court below upon the same evidence. The facts are briefly as follows : In August 1828, Evan Jones recovered two judgments against the Elkton Bank, before a justice of the peace, one for $10, debt, and 58-|- cents, costs, the other for $20, debt, and the same costs, with interest on each till paid.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Cecil County. These were two cases between the same parties, tried together in the court below upon the same evidence. The facts are briefly as follows : In August 1828, Evan Jones recovered two judgments against the Elkton Bank, before a justice of the peace, one for $10, debt, and 58-|- cents, costs, the other for $20, debt, and the same costs, with interest on each till paid. Upon these judgments two attachments were issued out of Cecil county court, on the 7th of May 1830, and laid to the amount of $15 in one case, and $25 in the other, in the hands of…
1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.
As these cases were tried together in the court below on evidence applicable to both the judgments on which the writs of sci.fa. were issued, they will be disposed of in like manner here.
Considering the small amounts involved, and the faet that they may be consumed by the expenses of the litigation, we were disposed, if we could, to have agreed with the ruling of the court below. But a careful consideration of (he record, in connection with the arguments of the counsel, has brought us to the conclusion, that the judgments cannot be affirmed without disregarding the express decisions of the…
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