Houston v. Nowland
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Cecil county court. This was an attachment founded on a warrant from a justice of the peace of Cecil county, issued on the 4th August, 1828, upon the affidavit of George Houston.
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Appeal from Cecil county court. This was an attachment founded on a warrant from a justice of the peace of Cecil county, issued on the 4th August, 1828, upon the affidavit of George Houston. The cause of action was a judgment, which the appellant recovered against David Wilson, on the 11th June, 1828, in the State of Delaware, and for wheat sold him in 1828. The sheriff laid the attachment on certain lands of Wilson, in the possession of A. C. JYowland, and certain credits in the hands of the other appellees as his garnishees. And the cause was submitted to the county court by the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtStephen, Judge
The question to be decided in this case, arises upon a case stated, and must be determined according to the construction and legal efficacy of the deed referred to, by the litigating parties. By that deed, Wilson the absent debtor, contemplated a transfer of all his property of every description, to certain trustees therein mentioned, for the benefit of all his creditors. That such a deed is available in this State, as being founded upon a good and valuable consideration, has been solemnly settled by a very recent adjudication of this court, in the case of the State of Maryland vs. the Bank…
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