Chase's Case
High Court of Chancery of Maryland
This bill was filed on. the 22d of November, 1821, by Hannah K. Chase, as the widow of the late Samuel Chase, against Samuel Chase, and others, his heirs, and some others, to recover dower in a house and lot in the city of Baltimore, called the Fountain Inn. To which bill all the defendants answered, and testimony was taken.
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This bill was filed on. the 22d of November, 1821, by Hannah K. Chase, as the widow of the late Samuel Chase, against Samuel Chase, and others, his heirs, and some others, to recover dower in a house and lot in the city of Baltimore, called the Fountain Inn. To which bill all the defendants answered, and testimony was taken. The heirs alleged, that the late Samuel Chase had not such a legal interest in the' property in question as to entitle the plaintiff to dower; and that even if she ever had been entitled to dower, she had relinquished her claim, as was shown by the records , and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Bland, Chancellor.
The petition for the appointment of a receiver standing ready for hearing, the parties were heard by counsel, and the proceedings read and considered.
The defendants have not thought proper to put in a formal answer in writing to the plaintiff’s petition, but have been content with showing cause verbally. If a petition of this kind, bringing before the court a matter which could not have been made the subject of a mere motion, because of the necessity of putting upon the record the new facts therein set forth, and apprising the party of all the circumstances' on which the…
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