Supreme Council of Royal Arcanum v. Brashears
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Frederick County (McSherry, C. J., Henderson and Motter, JJ.)
1Opinion of the CourtSchmucker, J.
On January 29th, 1896, Cornelius O. Brashears, who was a resident of Mt. Airy, in Frederick County, became a member of the Mt. Airy Council of the Royal Arcanum. On the 24th of March in the same year Brashears spent a portion of the day in Ellicott City, where he purchased a six-dram bottle of laudanum. In the afternoon of the same ■day he started towards his home on the B. & O. R. R., but left the cars at Marriottsville and walked up the public road, where he was last seen sitting upon a fallen tree reading a book.
Two days afterwards his dead body was found near the place at which he was…
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