Morris v. Harris
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill in this case was filed on the equity side of Charles county court, on the 5th of November 1833, by the complainants, Morgan Harris and Etheldra Harris, (the appellee,) his wife.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The bill in this case was filed on the equity side of Charles county court, on the 5th of November 1833, by the complainants, Morgan Harris and Etheldra Harris, (the appellee,) his wife. It alleges, that in 1817, Samuel Chapman of said county, discovering a vacancy adjoining his lauds on the Potomac river, agreed with William Morris, (the appellant,) that they together should take up the same, that the patent should issue to Morris, but the land should be held equally between them, each owning one half thereof; that Chapman paid $77.27, the caution money, on…
1Opinion of the CourtFrick, J.
The bill in this case was filed by Morgan Harris and his wife Etheldra, (formerly Chapman,) to enjoin an ejectme suit brought by the appellant, for a tract of land called “Morris' Landingand to obtain a conveyance of the legal title to the same, by a decree for the specific performance of an agreement between the appellant and Samuel Chapman the ancestor of the appellee, in relation to the sale of said land; which agreement it is alleged was in parol, and part performed and executed between the said parties, in the lifetime of Samuel Chapman.
The complainants, Morgan Harris and Etheldra his…
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