Stoddert v. Newman
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Charles County Court. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the present appellant, (the plaintiff below,) against the defendant, (the appellee,) as executrix of Francis Newman, to November term 1820. At March term 1822 a declaration was filed by the plaintiff against the defendant, as executrix as aforesaid, to recover the sum of $250 for the rent of a house and lot, which he had rented by a written contract to one Francis Newman, the husband of the…
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Appeal from Charles County Court. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the present appellant, (the plaintiff below,) against the defendant, (the appellee,) as executrix of Francis Newman, to November term 1820. At March term 1822 a declaration was filed by the plaintiff against the defendant, as executrix as aforesaid, to recover the sum of $250 for the rent of a house and lot, which he had rented by a written contract to one Francis Newman, the husband of the defendant, on the 21st of January 1818; that Francis Newman died, not having entered, leaving the defendant his executrix, who…
1Opinion of the CourtEarle, J.
Before this case was brought to trial below, the pleadings in the cause were several times amended, on the motion of the plaintiff, the appellant in this court. The last amendment changed the writ from a suit against Elisabeth H. Newman, executrix of Francis Newman, to an action against her in her own right, for the purpose of making her personally liahle for rent that had incurred after she took possession of certain demised premises, leased to her husband a little before his death. The two first counts of the declaration accordingly allege, that the plaintiff, on the 21st of January 1818,…
2Cited by1 opinion
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