Gott v. Carr
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the court of Chancery. The appellee on the 20th of November, 1830, exhibited her bill in the court of Chancery, against the present appellants, asking to be relieved by injunction, from the operation of three judgments in favor of the appellant Gott, rendered by Anne Arundel county court, upon appeals from the judgments of a justice of the peace.
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Appeal from the court of Chancery. The appellee on the 20th of November, 1830, exhibited her bill in the court of Chancery, against the present appellants, asking to be relieved by injunction, from the operation of three judgments in favor of the appellant Gott, rendered by Anne Arundel county court, upon appeals from the judgments of a justice of the peace. The circumstances upon which the opinion of this court turned, are sufficiently stated in the opinion delivered fay his honor the chief judge. Bland, Chancellor, at March term, 1833, perpetuated the injunction, and decreed the appellee…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The questions presented for the consideration of the *312court, are. 1st. Do the judgments at law in favor of the appellant, Susanna J. Gott, bar the defendant from maintaining this suit? 2nd. If they do not, is the defendant, upon the case made by the bill and answers, and the proof taken in the cause, entitled to a perpetual injunction of those judgments?
1. As to the preliminary question. It is a salutary principle of law, that every person is bound to take care of and protect his own rights and interests and to vindicate them in due season,…
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