Casey's Lessee v. Inloes
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of Ejectment, commenced by the appellant on the 20th August 1841, who declared for all that lot or piece of ground on Fell’s Point, in the city of Baltimore: Beginning for the same at the south-west intersection of Alice Anna street and Caroline street, and running westerly on Alice Anna street one hundred and seventy feet to Spring street, (formerly Petticoat alley,) and then southerly, bounding on the east side of…
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Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of Ejectment, commenced by the appellant on the 20th August 1841, who declared for all that lot or piece of ground on Fell’s Point, in the city of Baltimore: Beginning for the same at the south-west intersection of Alice Anna street and Caroline street, and running westerly on Alice Anna street one hundred and seventy feet to Spring street, (formerly Petticoat alley,) and then southerly, bounding on the east side of Petticoat alley, or Spring street, to the water of the dock commonly called the City Dock, then easterly bounding on the…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, J.
With the county court’s refusal to admit the testimony offered by the plaintiff in his first bill of exceptions, and objected to by the defendants, we entirely concur. It was immaterial and irrelevant to any of the issues in the cause. A prevalent opinion in the neighborhood, even if known and adopted by the lessor of the plaintiff, as to her legal rights, whether founded in error or not, does not at law prevent the running of the statute of limitations, nor repel the legal presumption of a grant arising from adverse possession, long continued and acquiesced in.
We also concur with the county…
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