Mangun v. Webster
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Prince George's county court. This was an action of replevin, brought on the 7th January 1847, by the appellants against the appellee, to recover two negro slaves, Tom and Aaron, the property of Mary Willing, in her lifetime. The appellant pleaded non ccpit, property in himself, in a stranger, and also limitations. On these pleas issues were joined. The verdict was for the plaintiff.
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Appeal from Prince George's county court. This was an action of replevin, brought on the 7th January 1847, by the appellants against the appellee, to recover two negro slaves, Tom and Aaron, the property of Mary Willing, in her lifetime. The appellant pleaded non ccpit, property in himself, in a stranger, and also limitations. On these pleas issues were joined. The verdict was for the plaintiff. At the trial of this cause, the plaintiff offered evidence to the jury, tending to prove title in their intestate, Mary Willing, to the property in dispute in this cause, and then, by agreement with-…
1Opinion of the Court
Dorsey, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of this court.
Two bills of exceptions were taken by the appellant on the trial' in the court below; the isolated question raised by the first of which was, whether the paper purporting to bé the certified copy of the letters of administration, granted to the appellees' by the orphans court of Washington county, District of Columbia, was admissible in evidence to the jury, without its being first proved, that the seal attached‘to said paper, was the seal of the said' orphans court.-
By the act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at December session…
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