Artz v. Grove
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuí Court for Washington County, sitting as a Court of Equity : The bill in this case was filed on the 3d day of April 1854, by theappelleo, setting forth that in the year 1843', the appellee purchased from Elias Baker and John Y. Swearingen, a parcel of land in Washington County, in the State of Maryland, of about fifty-seven acres, for §22.25, or §22.75 per acre, and that lie paid thereon about $500 or $600. That afterwards, at March term 1845, of…
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Appeal from the Circuí Court for Washington County, sitting as a Court of Equity : The bill in this case was filed on the 3d day of April 1854, by theappelleo, setting forth that in the year 1843', the appellee purchased from Elias Baker and John Y. Swearingen, a parcel of land in Washington County, in the State of Maryland, of about fifty-seven acres, for §22.25, or §22.75 per acre, and that lie paid thereon about $500 or $600. That afterwards, at March term 1845, of Washington County Court, the said vendors obtained judgments against the said appellee, upon notes given on account of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, C. J.
The appellee, the complainant below, filed bis bill on tbe 3rd of April 1854, against Isaac Long, the father and testator of the appellants, for the specific performance of a verbal contract, to reconvey certain lands then in the possession of the appellee, hut which had been previously conveyed to Long, as security or pledge for certain advances, made by him, for an account, and for an injunction against certain proceedings at law, by which the aappellant’s testator sought to evict the appellee from said lands. The hill prayed an answer on oath. The original defendant, Long, appeared and…
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