Legal Opinion

Soper v. Jones

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided June 29, 1881PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Howard County, on removal from the Baltimore City Court. This action was brought by the appellee against the appellants, and the narr. alleged as follows : First. — Eor that the defendants, who are associated together as co-partners in carrying on and conducting the business of auctioneers in the City of Baltimore, heretofore, to wit: on or about the eighteenth day of November, 1878, contracted with the plaintiff to sell for the plaintiff a…

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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Howard County, on removal from the Baltimore City Court. This action was brought by the appellee against the appellants, and the narr. alleged as follows : First. — Eor that the defendants, who are associated together as co-partners in carrying on and conducting the business of auctioneers in the City of Baltimore, heretofore, to wit: on or about the eighteenth day of November, 1878, contracted with the plaintiff to sell for the plaintiff a certain large lot of goods and merchandise, of great value to the plaintiff, for a price then expressed and agreed upon,…

1Opinion of the CourtIrving, J.

The question intended to be presented by the bill of exceptions, contained in the record of this cause, cannot *508be considered, because the bill of exceptions was not signed until after tbe term at which trial was had, was fully ended, and another term of the Circuit Court for Howard County, where it was tried, had intervened. The Judges of that Court, by virtue of the power conferred by the twenty-first section of Article four of the Constitution of 1867, by rule of Court, dated the 18th of March, 1868, fixed the terms of the several Courts in the several counties of their circuit. This rule,…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. State ex rel. President of Charlotte Hall School v. GreenwellCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1832
  2. Cumberland & Pennsylvania Rail Road v. SlackCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1876
  3. Tyson v. RickardCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1810
  4. Heath v. TylerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1876
  5. Karthaus v. OwingsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1823

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Ingold v. Phoenix Assurance Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1949
  2. Bonaparte v. ThayerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1902
  3. United Railways & Electric Co. v. DeanCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1912
  4. Parker v. . BeasleySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1895
  5. Green v. SansomSupreme Court of Florida · 1899

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