Legal Opinion

Peterkin v. Inloes

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided June 15, 1853PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from Baltimore county court. This was an action of ejectment, instituted by the lessors of the appellant to recover one acre of land, described in the declaration as part of “ Mountenay’s Neck” which is referred to in the preceding case of Hammond"1 s Lessee vs. Inloes, et al., and in the cases in 11 G. J., 351; 6 Gill, 321; and 1 Gill, 430. The plea and defence were the same as in those cases. s Exception.

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Appeal from Baltimore county court. This was an action of ejectment, instituted by the lessors of the appellant to recover one acre of land, described in the declaration as part of “ Mountenay’s Neck” which is referred to in the preceding case of Hammond"1 s Lessee vs. Inloes, et al., and in the cases in 11 G. J., 351; 6 Gill, 321; and 1 Gill, 430. The plea and defence were the same as in those cases. s Exception. The plaintiffs claimed under the title of “Mowntenay’s Neck,” and the title papers offered by them, exhibiting the chain of title from Alexander Mountenay, in 1663, to Thomas Sligh,…

1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.

As the present controversy grows out of the same title as that, set up in the case of Hammond vs. Inloes, (ante, 138,) and the suit was defended in the same manner, reference is made to the opinion in that case for a statement of what we-consider to have been settled by the former decisions of this court, and by which some of the questions argued on this-appeal are also to be determined.

It is sufficiently shown by the letters of administration on the estate of John and Mary Oulton, that they were dead in the year 1709. 1 Greenlf. on Ev., sec. 550. He devised "Bold Venture” to Mary Oulton in…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Casey's Lessee v. InloesCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1844

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Homewood Realty Corp. v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1931
  2. Sprigg v. MoaleCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1868
  3. Sims v. BoyntonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1858
  4. English v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1928
  5. Novak v. Trustees of the Orphans' HomeCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1914

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