Jordan v. Trumbo
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the court of Chancery. This bill was filed by the appellant on the 7th of October, 1830. At July term, 1832, Bland, Chancellor, passed his final decree, dismissing the bill with costs, from which the complainant appealed to the court of Appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtStephen, J.
The merits of this case lie within a very narrow compass. A judgment has been obtained at law against the appellant in this court, and complainant in the court below, upon a bill obligatory, in which he joined a certain George Ogg as his surety, for the payment to a certain Henry Neff, of the sum of two hundred dollars, at twelve months from the date thereof.
*105The suit at law was originally instituted by Neff’, and on his death was prosecuted to judgment by George Trumbo, the appellee, as his executor.
The complainant in his bill charges the consideration of the bill obligatory to be an usurious…
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