Gilbert v. Arnold
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, sitting in Equity. The bill in this case filed on the 1st of February, 1867, by the trustees of Goshen meeting-house and others, members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, prayed an injunction against the appellants to restrain them, their agents and servants from using, occupying or in any manner interfering with the said meeting-house, except in a peaceable and orderly attendance at public worship, under the direction…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, sitting in Equity. The bill in this case filed on the 1st of February, 1867, by the trustees of Goshen meeting-house and others, members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, prayed an injunction against the appellants to restrain them, their agents and servants from using, occupying or in any manner interfering with the said meeting-house, except in a peaceable and orderly attendance at public worship, under the direction and guidance of the appellees Arnold and Hobbs, or of the duly authorized and regularly appointed ministers of the said…
1Opinion of the CourtRobiNSON, J.
This cause was heard and submitted to the Court below, upon the demurrer to the bill of the complainants. It is *35insisted, however, on the part of the appellants, that the demurrer was withdrawn and answer filed, before the order was passed overruling the same and granting the writ of injunction.
In the view we take of the case, this question is altogether immaterial. The 102d section of Article 16, of the Code, provides that a party withdrawing a demurrer without leave of the Court, “ shall pay to the opposite party the sum of ten dollars and the costs thereof, and be in contempt until the…
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