Connelly v. Bowie
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Montgomery county court. Trespass qtiare clausura fregit. Tire general issue was pleaded; and at the trial, the plaintiff, (now appellee,) offered in evidence the plots and explanations returned to the court, and the patent of the tract of land called Hermitage, (on. which the trespass is alleged to have been committed,) granted to William Joseph on the 6th of June 1689, for 8866 acres.
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Appeal from Montgomery county court. Trespass qtiare clausura fregit. Tire general issue was pleaded; and at the trial, the plaintiff, (now appellee,) offered in evidence the plots and explanations returned to the court, and the patent of the tract of land called Hermitage, (on. which the trespass is alleged to have been committed,) granted to William Joseph on the 6th of June 1689, for 8866 acres. The third course of this grant is described, “thence south south west fifty perches to a bounded red, oak by another small run.” He then offered in evidence a deed from Benjamin Harris to John…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dorsey, J.
This was an action of trespass quare c7.au* cum fregit, brought in Montgomery county court, by John Bowie, the appellee, against John Gonnelly, the intestate of the appellant. The general issue was joined, and defence on. warrant taken. The plaintiff - below located, on, plots filed in the cause, a tract of land called The Hermitage, granted to William 'Joseph on. the 6th of June 1689, • for 3866 acres. He also located a deed executed on the •.. •14th, -of November 1748, by .Benjamin Harris to John Bowie, "for a tract of land culled Harris’s…
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