Stallings v. Stallings
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from tbe Equity side of tbe Circuit Court for Allegany County. Tbe bill of. complaint in tbis case, filed on tbe 1st of May 1850, by tbe appellee, alleged that' bis father, Samuel Stallings, died in tbe month of May 1849, seized of certain lands, intestate, and leaving tbe complainant and tbe defendants, bis children and heirs at law, all of whom were, above tbe age of twenty-one years, and “that tbe said Samuel Stallings, deceased, left no debts whatever.”
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Appeal from tbe Equity side of tbe Circuit Court for Allegany County. Tbe bill of. complaint in tbis case, filed on tbe 1st of May 1850, by tbe appellee, alleged that' bis father, Samuel Stallings, died in tbe month of May 1849, seized of certain lands, intestate, and leaving tbe complainant and tbe defendants, bis children and heirs at law, all of whom were, above tbe age of twenty-one years, and “that tbe said Samuel Stallings, deceased, left no debts whatever.” Tbe bill further charged, that tbe lands of which tbe said Samuel Stallings died seized were not susceptible of partition, and…
1Opinion of the Court
CocheaN,. J.,
delivered the opinion of this Court.
The bill in this case was filed for the purpose of obtaining a partition of the real estate, of which Samuel Stallings died seized and intestate, among his heirs at law; and the decree from which the appeal was taken, was passed upon a return made hy the commisioners appointed to enter upon and divide the lands in question. The objections *45relied on as a ground for reversing this decree, are founded chiefly on an alleged failure of the commissioners to comply with the provisions of the Act of 1820, ch. 191, which points out and particularly…
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