Ferrall v. Kent
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Prince George’s county court. This was an action of replevin for five thousand pounds of tobacco, brought on the 23rd December 1842, by the appellant against the appellee, who pleaded non cepit, and property in a stranger.
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Appeal from Prince George’s county court. This was an action of replevin for five thousand pounds of tobacco, brought on the 23rd December 1842, by the appellant against the appellee, who pleaded non cepit, and property in a stranger. In the trial of this cause, the plaintiff to maintain the issues on his part joined, proved to the jury by the testimony of Thomas H. Kent, that in the year 1839 he rented of the defendant a farm in Prince George’s county, for the years-1840 and 1841, on the following terms : — that he was to give the defendant, one-half of every thing that was made, he, tire…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
This was an action of replevin, instituted in Prince George’s county court, to recover from the defendant five thousand pounds of tobacco. To the declaration the defendant pleaded non cepil, property in the defendant, and property in a stranger, on which pleas issues were joined.
At the trial of the cause, the plaintiff below proved, by Thomas H. Kent, that in the year 1839, he rented of the defendant her farm, for the years 1840 and 1841, on the following terms: — He was to give the defendant one-half of every thing that was made; he was to carry all the crops to market, and to pay her…
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