Casson v. Joyce

Appellant, Bernice Casson, has appealed from a consent judgment entered in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. She had been sued for debt by appellee, to which suit she pled limitations and the general issue. After nine postponements the issue was set for trial before Judge H. Kemp MacDaniel, who had denied appellant a tenth postponement despite a physician’s letter questioning whether her physical and mental condition “has improved sufficiently for her to appear and testify in court.”

When the case came up for trial, counsel of record for the parties advised the court that an agreement…