Legal Opinion

Hough v. Kugler

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided June 18, 1872PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Caroline County. This was an attachment on warrant issued at the instance of the appellants to recover the sum of $5,055.38, claimed to be due to them from the appellee.

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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Caroline County. This was an attachment on warrant issued at the instance of the appellants to recover the sum of $5,055.38, claimed to be due to them from the appellee. The vouchers or evidence of debt produced by the attaching creditors consisted of the following articles of agreement, and an account purporting to show the amount of money due : This article of agreement, made this fifth day of October, Á. D., 1870, between George W. Kugler, of Goldsborough, Caroline county, and State of Maryland, and Lewis S. Hough and Amelia M. Hough, his wife, of Mantua,…

1Opinion of the CourtBartol, C. J.

The vouchers or evidence of debt produced by the attaching creditors in this case, consist of articles of agreement entered into between Hough and wife, of the one part, and Kngler, of the other part; and an account, purporting to show the amount of money due by the appellee to the appellants, under the contract, to be $5,055.38; the amount of alleged indebtedness stated, in the affidavit.

*194The groundwork of the suit is the articles of agreement; and the first thing to be observed with respect to them, is that the covenants of the appellee are made with Lewis S. Hough alone, his wife, Amelia…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Wilson v. WilsonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1849
  2. Lee v. TingesCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1854
  3. Dawson v. John A. Brown & Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1841
  4. Mears v. AdreonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1869
  5. State ex rel. Bouldin v. SteibelCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1869

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  4. Downs v. Mayor of BaltimoreCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1910
  5. Dirickson v. ShowellCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1894

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