White v. Shaffer

The appeal in this case is from an order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County overruling the demurrers of the appellants to an amended bill in equity filed by the appellee as plaintiff below. The question therefore presented for our consideration is whether the amended bill, admitting those of its allegations which are well pleaded to be true, presents a case entitling the plaintiff to relief.

The substantial allegations of the bill are as follows : Matilda F. Smith being the owner of a valuable tract of land in Baltimore County subdivided it for purposes of sale into a number of smaller…