Ruby v. State ex rel. Vernay
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal for the Court of Common Pleas, on removal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. Exceptions. — At the trial the defendants took three exceptions, which are substantially stated in the opinion. The third exception contains the four prayers offered hy the defendants, which on being rejected hy the Court, (Brown, J.,) the defendants excepted, and the verdict and judgment being for the plaintiff, the .sureties appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtIrving, J.
This suit was brought.upon the bond of Owen Wright, Albert Wright and Alexander E. Gaw, as executors of •Joseph H. Wright. The appellants, who were securities, on that bond, pleaded separately from the principals, and prosecute this appeal. The equitable plaintiff is one of *486the residuary legatees under her father’s will, and this-suit was instituted for the purpose of recovering the plaintiff’s share of his estate.
The narr. sets out the hond which' was in the penalty of twenty thousand dollars, dated the 25th of August, A. D. 1875, and was properly conditioned for the discharge, by the…
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