Gittings v. Mayhew
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal, from Baltimore county court. Assumpsit by the- appellee against the appellant, on a subscription of $500 for the purpose of erecting an Atheneum in the city of Baltimore. The suit was brought in- September 1848, by the plaintiff, as treasurer of the fund for building the Atheneum.
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Appeal, from Baltimore county court. Assumpsit by the- appellee against the appellant, on a subscription of $500 for the purpose of erecting an Atheneum in the city of Baltimore. The suit was brought in- September 1848, by the plaintiff, as treasurer of the fund for building the Atheneum. The first count in the declaration, alleges, that a design was formed by the plaintiff and divers other persons to raise a fund, by subscription, for the purpose of erecting in the city of Baltimore a building to be called The Atheneum; that a subscription book was prepared, in which it is stated that the…
1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.
It is not necessary to express an opinion upon all the pro*130positions presented by this record.- But, as some of them are particularly interesting to the community in which this contest arose, it is proper, after the full consideration they have had by counsel, that they should be decided.- We pass by the objections made to the generality of the first prayer, in view of the act of 1825, eh. 117, because, if they availed against that prayer, the point on which the judgment must be reversed is presented distinctly by the fourth prayer,, and also by the second, if, (as- we think- we should in this…
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