Calvert v. Friebus
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. This suit was brought by the appellee to recover from the appellant on an open account.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. This suit was brought by the appellee to recover from the appellant on an open account. At the trial of the case which was submitted to the Court, (Magruder, J.,) by consent of parties, after the plaintiff had offered evidence in support of the account sued on, the defendant offered to read in evidence the statement referred to in the deposition of George A. Bohrer, which was taken under a commission which had been issued in the case, and the evideüce of the said deponent, to the effect that the items of the said statement were given…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
The plaintiff, by her action in the Court below, sought to recover of the defendant the amount of an open account; but before suit brought the parties had attempted to have their matter in dispute settled by arbitration. The arbitrators were selected, and they heard the statements of the parties hut failed to arrive at a conclusion. And the principal question here is, whether the statement of the plaintiff made to the arbitrators, iu respect to her account, and the extent and amount of it, was admissible proof on the offer of the defendant, in the trial below,, for the purpose of showing that…
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