Waters v. Howard
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from tho Court of Chancery. The bill in this case was originally filed on the 2nd of November, 1846, in Baltimore county court, as a court of equity, by Charles A. Waters, the appellant, and his then wife, Ann Rebecca Waters. Pending the suit, she died without issue, and the cause was removed to the court of chancery. Charles A. Waters was, therefore, the only complainant at the time of hearing, and is the only party appealing from the decree.
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Appeal from tho Court of Chancery. The bill in this case was originally filed on the 2nd of November, 1846, in Baltimore county court, as a court of equity, by Charles A. Waters, the appellant, and his then wife, Ann Rebecca Waters. Pending the suit, she died without issue, and the cause was removed to the court of chancery. Charles A. Waters was, therefore, the only complainant at the time of hearing, and is the only party appealing from the decree. The allegations of the bill and answers, and all the facts and proofs in the case, are fully stated in the opinions of the chancellor, and of…
1Opinion of the CourtFrick, J.
The object of the bill filed in this case by the appellant and Rebecca Ann Waters, his wife, (since deceased,) is to enforce the performance of a contract alleged to have been made with the complainant, by Charles Waters the grandfather of Charles A. Waters, in which it is charged: That the grandson, with the sanction and encouragement of his grandfather, having made proposals of marriage to Miss Somerville, Charles Waters, the grandfather agreed: that if such marriage should be consumated, he would purchase and fully stock a farm for the complainants, would pay all the debts of his grandson…
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