Carroll v. Bowie
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Prince George's county court. This was an action of debt, brought on the 21st March 1846, by the appellant against the appellee, on the joint and several bond of William B. Chew, W. B-. C. Worthington, and Robert W. Bowie, with condition, that W. B. Chew would pay Edward Eversfield $1000, with interest, on or before 1st June 1843. The bond was assigned, under seal, by E. E. to W. B. C. W., one of the securities, for value of him received, on the 14th August 1844.…
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Appeal from Prince George's county court. This was an action of debt, brought on the 21st March 1846, by the appellant against the appellee, on the joint and several bond of William B. Chew, W. B-. C. Worthington, and Robert W. Bowie, with condition, that W. B. Chew would pay Edward Eversfield $1000, with interest, on or before 1st June 1843. The bond was assigned, under seal, by E. E. to W. B. C. W., one of the securities, for value of him received, on the 14th August 1844. The declaration of the plaintiff set forth the bond and condition, the assignment by E. E. to his testator in writing,…
1Opinion of the CourtFrick, J.
In this case, the appellant’s testator, Waller B. C. Worthington, and Robert W. Bowie, the appellee, became sureties for Wm. B. Chew, in a bond to Edioard Eversfield, conditioned for the payment of $1000. Worthington, afterwards, purchased or paid off the bond, and took from Eversfield an assignment thereof, in the following words:
“For value received, I hereby assign the above note to W. B. C. Worthington, one of the securities aforesaid, his heirs and assigns. Witness my hand and seal, this fourteenth day of August 1844.”
*37The writ was issued on the 21st day of March 1846, in the name of…
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