Chamberlain v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Kent County. The case is stated in the opinion of the .Court. Exception. — At the trial the plaintiffs offered the five following prayers: 1. If the jury find that the plaintiffs were seized and possessed of a certain farm in Cecil County called “Richmond Hill,” and being so seized and possessed, executed and delivered the deed offered in evidence, dated the 24th of November, 1883, conveying a portion of said farm to the defendant, and that…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Kent County. The case is stated in the opinion of the .Court. Exception. — At the trial the plaintiffs offered the five following prayers: 1. If the jury find that the plaintiffs were seized and possessed of a certain farm in Cecil County called “Richmond Hill,” and being so seized and possessed, executed and delivered the deed offered in evidence, dated the 24th of November, 1883, conveying a portion of said farm to the defendant, and that the defendant accepted said deed and the land thereby conveyed, and took possession of the same and constructed its…
1Opinion of the CourtIrving, J.
The questions presented by this appeal, arise wholly upon the prayers granted and rejected at the time ; and they depend upon the true and proper construction of the agreement of the appellee, a railroad corporation, in a certain deed of the appellants to it. The tenth count of the plaintiffs’ declaration, the appellants contend, presents their cause of action. It substantially charges that the appellants sold and conveyed a certain strip of land to the appellees for the purposes of their railroad, upon which was a certain spring of water at the foot of a certain hill, which spring, the…
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