Keighler v. Savage Manufacturing Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Equity Side of the Superior Court of Baltimore city. This appeal was taken from an order of the court below (Lee, J.,) continuing till final hearing, or further order, an injunction which had been granted upon a bill filed by the appellee against the appellants, and sustaining certain exceptions filed by the .complainant to the answer of the defendants, for insufficiency.
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Appeal from the Equity Side of the Superior Court of Baltimore city. This appeal was taken from an order of the court below (Lee, J.,) continuing till final hearing, or further order, an injunction which had been granted upon a bill filed by the appellee against the appellants, and sustaining certain exceptions filed by the .complainant to the answer of the defendants, for insufficiency. The bill alleges that the defendants, as partners under the co-partnership name of Duvall, Keighler & Co., were, from the 1st of January 1850, to the 1st of June 1851, agents and factors for the sale of…
1Opinion of the CourtLe Grand, C. J.
The bill filed in this cause has several objects in view, which may be thus stated: first, to enjoin the execution of a judgment in favor of appellants, and against the appellee; second, to procure, a full atid accurate account, embracing items and dates, of the dealings between the parties, the appellants having been the factors or agents of the appellee, for the sale of goods manufactured by the latter. The bill, in substance, alleges that the judgment sought to be enjoined was confessed by the appellee, not as an acknowledgment, absolutely, of so much indebtedness, but merely as a security…
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