Crawford v. Brooke
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Prince George’s county court. This was an action of assumpsit, commenced on the 13th March 1843, by the appellee against the appellants. The claim was for medical services and medicines, rendered to David Crawford by Hodges and Brooke, from 1834 to 1839, amounting to $619.69. The appellants pleaded non assumpsit, and limitations.
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Appeal from Prince George’s county court. This was an action of assumpsit, commenced on the 13th March 1843, by the appellee against the appellants. The claim was for medical services and medicines, rendered to David Crawford by Hodges and Brooke, from 1834 to 1839, amounting to $619.69. The appellants pleaded non assumpsit, and limitations. The plaintiff claimed, in his declaration, as the assignee of Hodges and Brooke, under the act of 1829, ch. 51. The assignment to the account, relied upon in the pleadings and evidence, was as follows:— “In consideration of the natural love and affection…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
This was an action of assumpsit, instituted by the appellee as the assignee of an account due to Messrs. Hodges and Brooke, for medical services rendered, and medicines furnished to David Crawford, the intestate. The appellant pleaded non assumpsit, and limitations, and upon those pleas issues were joined.
*217The assignment was as follows: — ■
“ In consideration of the natural love and affection we bear our several and respective children, we and each of us, do hereby grant, bargain, transfer, assign and set over, all our respective right, title, interest and claim, of, in, and to, the within…
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