Nickel v. Brown
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This action was brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover certain ground rents and taxes. The opinion of this Court, together with the opinion of Judge Dueey in the lower Court, furnish a sufficient statement of the facts of the case. First and Second Exceptions, relating to questions of evidence, are omitted, not having been passed upon by ■ the Court. Third Exception.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This action was brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover certain ground rents and taxes. The opinion of this Court, together with the opinion of Judge Dueey in the lower Court, furnish a sufficient statement of the facts of the case. First and Second Exceptions, relating to questions of evidence, are omitted, not having been passed upon by ■ the Court. Third Exception. The plaintiff offered the following prayers: 1. That if the jury find from the evidence that Stewart Brown, as surviving trustee under the will of Gran-ville S. Oldfield,…
1Opinion of the CourtBryan, J.
It appears from'the evidence in the cause that Stewart Brown, as trustee, is seized of the reversion in fee in three certain lots of ground lying in the City of Baltimore and that this reversion- is expectant on a leasehold estate for ninety-nine years. The lease is not set out in the transcript sent to this Court, nor any extract from it. We, however, gather from statements in the hills of exception that a rent was reserved on each lot of sixty dollars per annum, payable half yearly on the first day of January and on the first day of July in each and every year, and that the lessee…
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