Cecil v. Rose
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from (he Circuit Court for Prince Georges County. The appellees filed a petition for freedom on the 18th of August 1857, against the appellant, which was dismissed on the 13th of November following, and on the 2lst of October 1858, they filed a second petition against the same party.
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Appeal from (he Circuit Court for Prince Georges County. The appellees filed a petition for freedom on the 18th of August 1857, against the appellant, which was dismissed on the 13th of November following, and on the 2lst of October 1858, they filed a second petition against the same party. The appellant then filed his petition, which was sworn to in open court, alleging that he had incurred costs and expenses to the amount of $377.53 in the defence of the first petition and the maintenance of the negroes during the pendency thereof, and asking a stay of proceedings in the second petition…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
At the November term 1857, of the Circuit Court for Prince Georges county, a petition for freedom, which had been previously filed by the present appellees, was dismissed. Subsequently this petition was filed; and, at November term 1858, the defendant below, now appellant, filed his petition, stating that the former petition had been filed by the same parties, which had been dismissed; and that he had been subjected to large costs and expenses in the defence of that case, and in the maintenance of the negroes during the pendency of the same, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $377.53.…
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