State ex rel. Mayor of Baltimore v. Norwood
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore city. This action was brought on the 5th of May 1854, in the name of the State, for the use of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, against Lambert S. Norwood and his sureties, upon the official bond of Norwood, as clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, dated the 29th of June 1853. This bond was not stamped, and was given to the State in the penalty of $50,000, and conditioned in the same.manner as the bond in the preceding case.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore city. This action was brought on the 5th of May 1854, in the name of the State, for the use of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, against Lambert S. Norwood and his sureties, upon the official bond of Norwood, as clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, dated the 29th of June 1853. This bond was not stamped, and was given to the State in the penalty of $50,000, and conditioned in the same.manner as the bond in the preceding case. The declaration and plea were the same as those in the preceding case, and the agreement iti regard to waiving errors in…
1Opinion of the Court
Eccleston, L,
delivered the opinion of this court.
This suit was instituted in the name of the State for the use of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, against Lambert S. Norwood, Elizabeth Smith, Joshua M. Turner, and John W. Watkins, upon the official bond of Norwood, as clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the city of Baltimore, dated the 29th of June 1853; the penalty of which is fifty thousand dollars. The nclr and the plea are similar to those in the preceding case, between the State for the use of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as plaintiffs below, against L. S. Norwood,…
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