Legal Opinion

Barney v. Patterson's Lessee

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided June 15, 1824PublishedCited by 39 opinions

, Appeal from Baltimore county court. Ejectment, for a lot -of ground in the city of Baltimore. PJéa, non cul. 1. At the trial the plaintiff, (now appellee,) having deduced a title to the lot in dispute down to Jiqidla Brown, gave in evidence, that Brown, being- largely indebted to tlie United States, had removed from this state, (where lie had before resided,) sometime in the year 1802, .and had for several years last past resided in some part of Europe,, and that the…

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, Appeal from Baltimore county court. Ejectment, for a lot -of ground in the city of Baltimore. PJéa, non cul. 1. At the trial the plaintiff, (now appellee,) having deduced a title to the lot in dispute down to Jiqidla Brown, gave in evidence, that Brown, being- largely indebted to tlie United States, had removed from this state, (where lie had before resided,) sometime in the year 1802, .and had for several years last past resided in some part of Europe,, and that the United States caused and procured process of attachment to be laid upon said lot, a? the right and property of said Brown,…

1Opinion of the Court

Buchanan, Cb, J.

delivered- the opinion of the courts This is an appeal from the judgment of Baltimore county-court, in an action of ejectment, brought by William Patterson's lessee, the appellee, against John Barney, the appellant.

The appellee, claims title under a sale made to the lessor of the plaintiff by Paul. Bentalou, marshal of the United States, in virtue of a writ of fieri facias, sued out of *197the circuit court of the United States, for the District of Maryland, upon a judgment of a condemnation by that court, of the premises in .question, on proceedings in attachment, in a suit…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Croudson v. LeonardSupreme Court of the United States · 1808

3Cited by39 opinions

  1. Compton v. JesupCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1895
  2. Shirk v. SoperCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1923
  3. Corner v. MackintoshCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1878
  4. Risewick v. DavisCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1862
  5. State v. RamsburgCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1875

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