Elliott v. Knott
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Saint Mary’s County. Ejectment brought on the 16th of July 1852, by the appellants, against the appellee, for a tract of land called “Pennyrine,” containing two hundred acres. Plea, non cut. 1st Exception.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Saint Mary’s County. Ejectment brought on the 16th of July 1852, by the appellants, against the appellee, for a tract of land called “Pennyrine,” containing two hundred acres. Plea, non cut. 1st Exception. The plaintiffs proved that the land in controversy was originally in the possession of the widow of Charles Llewellin, as the guardian of her children, and was owned and occupied by them: that there were at first five children, but all the others died without issue, leaving John Llewellin and William H. Llewellin, the two survivors, the latter of whom also…
1Opinion of the Court
Le Grand, O. L,
delivered the opinion of this court.
We regard the principal question involved in this case as having been settled by the decision pronounced in Miles vs. Knott’s Lessee, 12 G. & J., 443. The only difference, so far as the rights of the parties are concerned, between that case and this, if any, consists in the fact, that there was no question of infancy in that case, whilst there is in the present one.
We think this circumstance unimportant. In that case the court fully adopt the doctrine of the case of Jackson vs. Robbins, 16 Johnson, 582, which approves of the principle…
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