Harden v. Moores
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Harford County Court. This was a writ of attachment on judgment, issued out of Harford county court on the 16th of December 1822, and directed to the sheriff of that county, reciting the recovery of a judgment in Baltimore county court on the fourth Monday in March 1820, by Samuel Harden and Nehemiah Carson, (the now appellants,) against George G. Presbury 3d, for $300 current money damages, and $7 27$ costs; that on the 10th of May 1822 a writ of fieri facias,…
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Appeal from Harford County Court. This was a writ of attachment on judgment, issued out of Harford county court on the 16th of December 1822, and directed to the sheriff of that county, reciting the recovery of a judgment in Baltimore county court on the fourth Monday in March 1820, by Samuel Harden and Nehemiah Carson, (the now appellants,) against George G. Presbury 3d, for $300 current money damages, and $7 27$ costs; that on the 10th of May 1822 a writ of fieri facias, directed to the sheriff of Harford county, issued out of Baltimore county court on the said judgment, against the said…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the court. This is the case of an attachment, issued out of Harford county court, on a judgment obtained against George G. Preshury, in Baltimore county court, which, after interrogatories filed and answered by the garnishee, was quashed by the court, on motion.
The question to which we have directed our attention is, whether an attachment will lie in any and what case, from one county court, on a judgment rendered in another? And that depends on the construction of several acts of assembly, which will be very briefly considered. Under the aet of 1715,…
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