Dorsey v. Hagerstown Bank
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Equity Side of the Circuit Court for Washington county. The bill in this case was filed on the 26th of August 1858, by the appellants against the appellees, for an injunction to restrain execution of a judgment recovered by the bank against the complainants; the other defendant was the sheriff executing the process.
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Appeal from the Equity Side of the Circuit Court for Washington county. The bill in this case was filed on the 26th of August 1858, by the appellants against the appellees, for an injunction to restrain execution of a judgment recovered by the bank against the complainants; the other defendant was the sheriff executing the process. The bill charges that the bank recovered a judgment, in November 1846, against the complainants, for $2750, and that the same was revived by scire facias in March 1857. It then charges that Dorsey, the principal judgment debtor, had, from 1849 to 1856, made certain…
1Opinion of the CourtBartol, J.
This cause was heard below on bill and answer, upon a, motion to dissolve an injunction which had been granted at the instance of the appellants against the appellees.
This court has heretofore decided that the Acts of 1852, ch. 133, and 1853, ch. 344, relating to the effect of answers in chancery, have no application to such a case as this. 15 Md. Rep., 18. Ibid., 260. The allegations of the bill, upon which all the equities of the complainants case rested,, having been denied by the answer, the injunction was properly dissolved by the circuit court, and to that extent the order of the…
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