Mayor of Balto v. Poultney
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore city. This was an action on the ease, brought by the appellees ¡against the appellant, to recover damages for injuries sustained by them in loss of goods, wares and merchandize taken and carried away from their store in the city of Baltimore, and for other injuries done them by a tumultuous assemblage .of people on the ‘21st of April, 1861. The declaration contained three counts, the first and second counts were framed on the 82nd…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore city. This was an action on the ease, brought by the appellees ¡against the appellant, to recover damages for injuries sustained by them in loss of goods, wares and merchandize taken and carried away from their store in the city of Baltimore, and for other injuries done them by a tumultuous assemblage .of people on the ‘21st of April, 1861. The declaration contained three counts, the first and second counts were framed on the 82nd Article of the Oode of Public General Laws, and the third was framed with reference to the principles of the common law.…
1Opinion of the CourtWeisel, J.
In this case the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore were sued by the appellees, (plaintiffs below,) under the 82d Article of the Code of Public General Laws, and also at .common law, for injuries done to the store of the plaintiffs in said city, and for losses sustained in the violent taking and carrying away therefrom of a quantity of arms, ammunition and other goods, by a riotous and tumultuous assemblage of people, on Sunday the 21st of April, 1861, a period of well known excitement and alarm in that city.
Evidence was given on both sides, and some offered by tbe plaintiffs was excluded by…
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