Reddall v. Bryan
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the equity side of the Circuit Court for Montgomery county. This appeal is from an order refusing an injunction, upon a bill filed by the appellant against the appellees in April 1858. The bill alleges that the complainant is and has been for a long time, and was, long before the commission of the trespasses hereinafter described, seized and possessed of a valuable tract of land called “The llesurvey of Magruder’s and Bell’s Honesty,” situated in Montgomery…
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Appeal from the equity side of the Circuit Court for Montgomery county. This appeal is from an order refusing an injunction, upon a bill filed by the appellant against the appellees in April 1858. The bill alleges that the complainant is and has been for a long time, and was, long before the commission of the trespasses hereinafter described, seized and possessed of a valuable tract of land called “The llesurvey of Magruder’s and Bell’s Honesty,” situated in Montgomery county, containing one hundred and thirty acres, more or less; that certain individuals, (the defendants,) contriving and…
1Opinion of the Court
Bartol, L,
delivered the opinion of this court.
In the opinion of a majority of this court, the nature of the acts complained of in this bill, and of the injury alleged, is such as to present a case of irreparable damage, which would entitle the complainant to the interposition of a court of equity by injunction, if it sufficiently appeared on the face of the bill' that the acts charged were done by the defendants without authority of law.
We think there is great force in the view taken by the Circuit court of the manner in which the case of the complainant is stated in the bill, and cannot…
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