Legal Opinion

Heckart v. Roberts

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided June 15, 1856PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the Superior Court for Baltimore city. This was a petition by the appellants for a mandamus, to compel the State lottery commissioner to pay to each of the petitioners $425.01, the balance alleged to be due upon a lottery grant, and decreed to be paid to them by decree of Baltimore county court, as á court of equity, the decree giving one-fourth of the sum ordered to be paid, to each of the petitioners.

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Appeal from the Superior Court for Baltimore city. This was a petition by the appellants for a mandamus, to compel the State lottery commissioner to pay to each of the petitioners $425.01, the balance alleged to be due upon a lottery grant, and decreed to be paid to them by decree of Baltimore county court, as á court of equity, the decree giving one-fourth of the sum ordered to be paid, to each of the petitioners. The court' (Lee, J.) refused the application, and the petitioners appealed. The argument of the case before Le Grand, C. J., Eggleston and Tuck, J., was stopped by the court, who…

1Opinion of the CourtLe Grand, C. J.

The decision appealed from in this case must be affirmed, if, for no other reason, than that too many persons have joined in the application for the writ. Their claims are alleged to be separate, and being such they cannot be united. Smith, et al., vs. Erb, et al., 4 Gill, 437.

Judgment affirmed.

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Smith v. ErbCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1846

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Goodwyn v. ShererSupreme Court of Alabama · 1906
  2. People ex rel. Bailey v. City of ChicagoAppellate Court of Illinois · 1918

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