Johnston v. Canby
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City, in equity. The bill in this case filed'- by the appellants on the 17th of June, 1864, stated that the appellants, Josiah Lee Johnston and Henry E. Johnston, conducting business under the firm name of Johnston Brothers & Co., obtained a judgment against Charles B. Hatch, of Baltimore County, one of the *defendants, in the Circuit Court for said county, on the 21st of November, i860, for the sum of $14,377.19, with interest…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City, in equity. The bill in this case filed'- by the appellants on the 17th of June, 1864, stated that the appellants, Josiah Lee Johnston and Henry E. Johnston, conducting business under the firm name of Johnston Brothers & Co., obtained a judgment against Charles B. Hatch, of Baltimore County, one of the *defendants, in the Circuit Court for said county, on the 21st of November, i860, for the sum of $14,377.19, with interest from the 9th of the same month; that there remained due and unpaid of said judgment, at the time of filing the bill,…
1Opinion of the CourtBartol, C. J.
It is unnecessary to express any opinion in this case, upon the question of the jurisdiction and authority of George W. Ritter, the Justice of the Peace of Baltimore County, to take the acknowledgment of the mortgage from Hatch and wife to Canby, or to take the affirmation of the mortgagee to the *221truth and bona tides of the- consideration thereof, out of the limits of Baltimore County, and within the City of Baltimore.
Conceding that the appellants are correct in the position taken by them, that neither the acknowledgment nor the affirmation was .made as required by the Act of 1856, ch. 154,…
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