Abbott v. Monti

This is a suit in equity brought by the complainant to enforce her alleged right to a deed to lot eighteen in block forty-nine, in Georgetown. After the issues were made up, and the cause was ready for hearing, the complainant moved the court to direct an issue to try the controverted fact as to the ownership of the lot in dispute.

To determine this issue was to determine all the issues involved by the pleadings in the cause. It was in effect a motion to the court that the entire case made by the bill, answer and replication, might be submitted to a jury for its verdict. This, to say the…