Boring's Lessee v. Lemmon
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court. Ejectment for a tract of land called Boring’s Habitation Rock. The general issue was pleaded, and á verdict taken for thé plain- , ,. . ,, r n xilF, subject to the opinion of the court, on the tollo wing statemeñt of facts, viz.
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Appeal from Baltimore county court. Ejectment for a tract of land called Boring’s Habitation Rock. The general issue was pleaded, and á verdict taken for thé plain- , ,. . ,, r n xilF, subject to the opinion of the court, on the tollo wing statemeñt of facts, viz. “Boring's Habitation Rock was, 7 ° , _ _ granted to Ezekrel Boring, the lessor of the plaintiff* the 24th of April 1795. The grant was founded upon a certificate of survey that hád been returned into the land office in due and regular time, and dated the 8th day of October 1794. One Christian Singery had, under a warrant, caus«d a…
1Opinion of the Court
Chase, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the court. It' being admitted in this case that all the lands contained within.the limits of Boring’s Habitation Rock, were by fraud included in Singery’s Trouting Streams, by Singery’s fraudulently inserting in the certificate of Singery’s Trouting Streams, a call for the beginning of Petticoats Loose, while Singery had the certificate in his possession, and before the same was returned to the land office; the court *226are of opinion, that the land thus included in Singery’s Trouting Streams, did not pass to Singery by his patent, but that the same being…
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