Garretson v. Cole
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a decree of the court of chancery, in favour of the complainant in that court. The bill stated that Cole, (the appellee,) on the 12th of February 1771, obtained a common warrant from the land office for 60 acres of land, and paid the caution money on it.
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Appeal from a decree of the court of chancery, in favour of the complainant in that court. The bill stated that Cole, (the appellee,) on the 12th of February 1771, obtained a common warrant from the land office for 60 acres of land, and paid the caution money on it. That within five days from the date of the warrant, he took it to the surveyor of Baltimore county, (to whom it was directed,) and had it located on certain vacant land in that county, which the ap-pellee had first discovered, adjoining Orindall and Taylor's Addition, and that the surveyor endorsed that location on the warrant,…
1Opinion of the Court
The ChaNgéiíor,
on motion of Cole’s counsel,, granted him leave to amend his last mentioned petition of the 19th of February, in any manner he thought proper. And the petition was amended, praying that the chancellor would decree the title to be vested, and issue a writ of injunction, in the nature of the habere facias possessionem, to deliver to Cole the possession of the land and premises in the decree mentioned.
Hanson, Chancellor, on the 24 th of February 1800, passed the following decree:
«‘The complainant applies, by petition, for an injunction or process of some kind, to secure him the…
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