Mayor of Baltimore v. Poultney
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appkal from the Superior Court of Baltimore city: Tiiis was an action of assumpsit by tbo appellees against the appellants, for goods sold and delivered. Plea, non assumpsit and issue. Exception.
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Appkal from the Superior Court of Baltimore city: Tiiis was an action of assumpsit by tbo appellees against the appellants, for goods sold and delivered. Plea, non assumpsit and issue. Exception. At the trial of this cause the plaintiffs, to maintain the issue on their part joined, proved by competent testimony, that during the year 1861 and before, and ever since, they wore the proprietors and occupants of a house No.-, Baltimore street, in the city of Baltimore, in which they carried on business as partners, under the name of Poultney aiid Trimble, and there kept for sale, and sold guns,…
1Opinion of the Court 1
Bartol, J.,
dissented and filed the following opinion:
The only questions presented by this appeal arise upon the prayers. The appellees, who were the plaintiffs below, asked two prayers which were granted, and the appellants four, which wore rejected. In the argument ef the causo'’m this Court, two principal objections have been made to the prayers ef the appellees : the first raising a question of law, growing out of the construction of the Code defining the powers and duties of the Police Commissioners; and the other based upon the alleged want of evidence to support the hypothesis of the…
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