Jones v. Mechanics Bank
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an attachment on warrant, issued out of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, on the 17th of April, 1865, at the instance of the appellants, against the lands, tenements, goods, chattels and credits of G. A. Mundorff, a non-resident of the State of Maryland, to recover the sum of $1,507.50, due and owing from the said Mundorff to the appellants, for *one hundred and fifty barrels of apples, at $10 per barrel, and for…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an attachment on warrant, issued out of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, on the 17th of April, 1865, at the instance of the appellants, against the lands, tenements, goods, chattels and credits of G. A. Mundorff, a non-resident of the State of Maryland, to recover the sum of $1,507.50, due and owing from the said Mundorff to the appellants, for *one hundred and fifty barrels of apples, at $10 per barrel, and for hauling the same at and for the sum of $7.50. The writ was laid in the hands of the appellee, as garnishee of said…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The facts of this case, upon which are based the main propositions of law contained in the several prayers on either side, are these:
In the early part of March, 1865,. Mundorff, who was then engaged at City Point, Virginia, in the business of furnishing supplies to sutlers in the army, verbally agreed with the plaintiffs, Lewis Jones & Co., merchants in Baltimore, to buy from them two hundred barrels of apples at $10 per barrel, and ^directed then to send the apples to the schooner Mansion, chartered by Mr. Kilbourn, then lying at a wharf in Baltimore, and on which he had shipped other…
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