Legal Opinion

Ranoul v. Griffie

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided December 15, 1852PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Carroll county. This was an action of replevin, instituted by the appellee against the appellant, to recover a horse alleged to be the property of the plaintiff. The pleas were: — 1st, noncepit; 2nd, property in defendant; and 3rd, property in a stranger. lsf Exception.

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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Carroll county. This was an action of replevin, instituted by the appellee against the appellant, to recover a horse alleged to be the property of the plaintiff. The pleas were: — 1st, noncepit; 2nd, property in defendant; and 3rd, property in a stranger. lsf Exception. The plaintiff proved that the horse in question was his property, and in his possession, on the 27th of May 1850, on which day the sheriff of said county sold him to the defendant, in virtue of a writ of fi.fa., in favor of one Daniel Frazier, against the plaintiff, which writ recited the…

1Opinion of the CourtLe Grand, C. J.

This was an action of replevin, instituted by the appellee, to recover a horse which the appellant had purchased at a sheriff’s sale, under a fieri facias, issued on a judgment obtained by one Frazier against the appellee.

The facts of the case are substantially these: Frazier sued the appellee before a single justice of the peace in election district No. 4, of Carroll county, and obtained a judgment. The appellee appealed to the district court of the same district, whereupon, at the instance of Frazier, the case was removed to district court, No. 5, and a judgment obtained, on which issued…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Barney v. Patterson's LesseeCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1824

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Cooper v. SunderlandSupreme Court of Iowa · 1856
  2. Klein v. WhiteheadCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1978
  3. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. v. PerkinsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1935
  4. Presson v. PressonNevada Supreme Court · 1915
  5. State v. RamsburgCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1875

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