Hopper v. Haines
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. First and Second Exceptions need not be set out.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. First and Second Exceptions need not be set out. Third Exception. — The plaintiff offered the three following prayers: 1. That the evidence of the witnesses, White, Roussey and Hopper, as to the quantity of wheat raised upon the defendant’s farm in 1884, is not to be considered by the jury in this case, the same being irrelevant to any issue under the pleadings in the case. 2. That the jury are not to ’ consider the evidence of Harrison Hopper to the effect that the witness, John H. Haines, was…
1Opinion of the CourtIrving, J.
This case was argued orally at the last term of the Court, and a conchtsion was announced, but was after-wards withdrawn, and a re-argument upon notes was ordered in respect to section twenty-two of Art. 53, of the Code of Public General Laws, as added by the Act of 1868, ch. 292, and the effect of the Act of 1870, ch. 279, and subsequent legislation upon it.
The appellant's counsel conducted their case in the lower Court and in this Court, on the theory, that section twenty-two of Article 53, which was enacted by the Act of 1868, was in full force in Harford County, where the transactions…
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