Hatch v. Pendergast
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of .Common Pleas. Trespass on the case, brought on the 1st of August 1856, by the appellee against the appellant, who was the clerk of the Lexington market, to recover damages for deprivipg the plaintiff, with force and violence, of a street stand on Paca street in said market, and putting another party in possession thereof, which said stand, the plaintiff claimed, had been rented by him from Baltimore city, from the 1st of May 1856, to the 1st of May…
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Appeal from the Court of .Common Pleas. Trespass on the case, brought on the 1st of August 1856, by the appellee against the appellant, who was the clerk of the Lexington market, to recover damages for deprivipg the plaintiff, with force and violence, of a street stand on Paca street in said market, and putting another party in possession thereof, which said stand, the plaintiff claimed, had been rented by him from Baltimore city, from the 1st of May 1856, to the 1st of May 1857. The defendant pleaded that the plaintiff was not entitled to the stand or stall, as alleged, and that he did not…
1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.
The appellee sued the appellant to recover damages for *258removing bis fruits, and other articles, from a street-stand iri the Lexington market, in the citjr of Baltimore; the defendant,- at the time, being the clerk of the market, and having authority, under the ordinances of the city, to remove the party if he was not entitled to the use of the stand.. There was evidence to show that Pendergast, a huckster, had occupied a stand for eighteen or twenty years, and he produced at the trial certificates that he had paid for stand No. 12, for the years from May 1853 to May 1856, and from May 1856 to…
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