Cassell v. Carrollton
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court of Maryland. This was an action of debt, brought by the plaintiff in error in the Court below, for the recovery of certain quit-rents alleged to be due from the defendant to the plaintiff’s intestate. The special verdict found by the jury stated the following facts.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court of Maryland. This was an action of debt, brought by the plaintiff in error in the Court below, for the recovery of certain quit-rents alleged to be due from the defendant to the plaintiff’s intestate. The special verdict found by the jury stated the following facts. The jury find, by their verdict, that Charles the First, in the eighth year of his reign, granted to Cescelius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, his heirs and assigns, for ever, in fee simple* the Province’(now-State) of Maryland, by a charter dated the eighth of June, 1633. Csecelius Calvert di<>d in 1675,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is the case of an action of debt,, brought by the plaintiff as administrator of Louisa Browning, against the defendant, for the recovery of certain qdit-rents asserted to be due to the intestate, as Proprietary of the Province of Marylahd, and accruing between the years 1771 and 1780. In the Circuit Court for Maryland District, upon the trial of the cause upon the general issue, a special verdict was found, upon which that Court gave judgment pro forma for the der fendant, and the cause has been brought before us for a final decision, by a writ of error.
The cause has been here argued…
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