Reynolds v. Davison
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This suit was instituted by the appellants, to recover from the appellee the sum of $700 for one year’s rent, from the 1st of July, 1869, of a dwelling house on Fayette street, upon the theory that the defendant rented the house from the plaintiffs for one year, held over for a second year, and left without legal notice, thereby becoming liable for a third year. To recover rent for this third year, was the object of this suit.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This suit was instituted by the appellants, to recover from the appellee the sum of $700 for one year’s rent, from the 1st of July, 1869, of a dwelling house on Fayette street, upon the theory that the defendant rented the house from the plaintiffs for one year, held over for a second year, and left without legal notice, thereby becoming liable for a third year. To recover rent for this third year, was the object of this suit. The facts of the case are sufficiently disclosed in the following bills of exception : First Exception: The plaintiffs, to…
1Opinion of the CourtStewart, J.
Some question is made in the first exception in this appeal, as to which party the responsibility belongs, for the reading by the jury of the memorandum made by the witness Cook. The appellants insist that the memorandum was offered to the jury by the appellee, who on the contrary disavows any design to make it his testimony.
To our apprehension of the questions involved, as presented by the record transmitted, which must govern this Court in reviewing the case, it is not material to inquire into the fret whether the memorandum was offered by the one side or the other, or was inadvertently…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lister v. Allen ex rel. RatcliffeCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1869
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