Myers v. Silljacks
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The hill of complaint in this case filed on the 18th of Eehruary, 1880, hy George Presstman against John Sill-jacks, sought to obtain the specific execution of the covenant of renewal contained in a lease for ninety-nine years, renewable forever, from Ann Eell to Alexander McMechen, dated the 5th of July, E769. On the 8th of November, 1880, the death of the complainant was suggested, and his administrators, with the will…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The hill of complaint in this case filed on the 18th of Eehruary, 1880, hy George Presstman against John Sill-jacks, sought to obtain the specific execution of the covenant of renewal contained in a lease for ninety-nine years, renewable forever, from Ann Eell to Alexander McMechen, dated the 5th of July, E769. On the 8th of November, 1880, the death of the complainant was suggested, and his administrators, with the will annexed, were admitted parties complainant in his stead. The Court (Dobbin, J.,) passed a decree dismissing the bill, being…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
This suit was instituted to enforce specific execution of a covenant for renewal of a lease, for the term of ninety-nine years.
xl large portion of the matter brought forward in the present case, as affording ground for relief, and which was machi the subject of elaborate argument at bar, was really involved, and in fact considered by this Court, in the determination of the action at law between the same parties, and in respect to the same property now the subject of controversy: and the principles of the decision then made, so far as the legal rights of the parties are involved, we ' *322shall…
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