Hintze v. Thomas
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court. Covenant by the appellee against the appellant; for ground-rent due under a lease. The suit was instituted on the 25th of August 1845. Plea nil debet, with an agreement to waive errors in pleading.
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Appeal from Baltimore county court. Covenant by the appellee against the appellant; for ground-rent due under a lease. The suit was instituted on the 25th of August 1845. Plea nil debet, with an agreement to waive errors in pleading. The case was submitted to the court below upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears, that Margaret Moore, being lessee of the premises, under a lease for ninety-nine years, commencing the 2nd of November 1792, executed, on the 7th of May 1836, a lease of the same to Peter R. Blumb, for ninety-nine years from that date, at a yearly rent of $24.62,…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
This is an action of covenant for rent alleged to be due under a lease from Margaret Moore to Peter R. Blumb, for ninety-nine years, bearing date the 7th of May 1836, which lease was assigned to H. Peters, on the 18th of February 1837, by Mrs. Moore. When she executed this lease her only title to the premises was as lessee under a lease for ninety-nine years, commencing on the 2nd of November, 1792. The rent in controversy fell due after the assignment by Mrs. Moore to Peters.
This claim has been resisted upon the ground that as the lease or conveyance from Mrs. Moore to Blumb, professed to…
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