Edelen v. Hardey's Lessee
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Prince Georges County Court. Ejectment for an undivided third part of a tract of land called What You Please.
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Appeal from Prince Georges County Court. Ejectment for an undivided third part of a tract of land called What You Please. The defendant, (the appellant,) took general defence, and issue was joined on the plea of not guilty. 1. The plaintiff at the trial read in evidence, with the consent of the defendant, and under an agreement for that purposé entered into between the parties, the certificates of the clerk of the circuit court of the District of Columbia for Washington county, given on the 1st ot September 1820, not under the seal of his office, stating “that the papers filed in the…
1Opinion of the CourtStephen, J.
at this term delivered the opinion of the couriv This action of ejectment was instituted in the court below for an undivided third part of a tract of land called What you Please. Defence was taken upon title. The lessor of th® plaintiff claiming as heir at law of Thomas Jenkins, and the defendant under an instrument of writing alleged to be his last will and testament; and the sole question which appears to have arisen in the court-below, related to the due execution of said will, according to the formalities prescribed by the statute of *67frauds and perjuries. Upon this point three bills of…
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