President of Virginia v. Brooke
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. ' On the 4th of March, 1868, Jeremiah P. Bartholow, being at that time indebted to Wm. Pinkney Brooke, gave John B. Brooke, as trustee for Martha G. Brooke, the wife of said Wm.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. ' On the 4th of March, 1868, Jeremiah P. Bartholow, being at that time indebted to Wm. Pinkney Brooke, gave John B. Brooke, as trustee for Martha G. Brooke, the wife of said Wm. Pinkney Brooke, his promissory notes, in settlement of the said indebtedness, and on the 11th of the same month he and his wife executed a mortgage of real estate in Prince George’s county, to said John B. Brooke, as trustee, to secure the payment of said notes. At the time the • indebtedness to Wm. Pinkney Brooke was so transferred to his wife he was himself…
1Opinion of the CourtGrason, J.
This cause was submitted to the Court below, without the intervention of a jury, and two exceptions were taken by the plaintiffs, one to the rejection of. its four prayers and the other to the overruling its motion to have a separate suit docketed against Jeremiah P. Bartholow, one of the garnishees.
At the argument of the case in this Court it was conceded by the appellants’ counsel that the fourth prayer was properly rejected; so that it is only necessary to consider whether there was error in refusing to grant the instructions asked by the first, second and third.
It appears from the record…
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