Allen v. Sowerby
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court. This was an action of assumpsit by the appellee’s intestate, against the appellant to recover the sum of $201.92, claimed to be due upon a contract alleged to have been made between them.
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Appeal from the Baltimore City Court. This was an action of assumpsit by the appellee’s intestate, against the appellant to recover the sum of $201.92, claimed to be due upon a contract alleged to have been made between them. The alleged contract was a letter from the defendant to the plaintiff, dated New York, July 13th, 1868. First Exception. — The plaintiff to sustain the issue on his part, proved that prior to the 13th July, 1868, he had been employed by the defendant as solicitor of policies for the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine, of which the defendant was the resident…
1Opinion of the CourtStewart, J.
There is no reference in the record to the 36th Rule of Baltimore City Court, according to which the appellee insists the exceptions were not prepared, and submitted' to the Court during the term at which the case was tried, and therefore has made the motion to dismiss this appeal.
The record shows that the trial took place on the 6th November, 1871, and the bills of exception are signed and sealed by the Judge of that Court, on the same day— why they were not filed until the 12th January, 1872, does not appear. There is nothing to show they were not submitted at the same term at which the…
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