Blizzard v. Jacobs
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of Debt, brought on the 15th September, 1826, by the appellant, against the appellee, on the following single bill : “ Twelve months after date, we or either of us, do promise to pay or cause to be paid unto George P. Merryman, his heirs or assigns, the just sum of $400, it being for value received of him.
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Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of Debt, brought on the 15th September, 1826, by the appellant, against the appellee, on the following single bill : “ Twelve months after date, we or either of us, do promise to pay or cause to be paid unto George P. Merryman, his heirs or assigns, the just sum of $400, it being for value received of him. Witness our hands and seals, the 25th June, 1808. Martico Merryman, (seal.) John Jacobs, (seal.)” The writ was returnable to September term, 1826, at which term, the defendant appeared and laid a rule on the plaintiff to declare. During…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, C. J.
This case depends upon the construction of the act of 1825, ch. 167.
The suit was brought on a joint and several single bill against the administrators of one of the obligors, the other obligor being alive at the time; and on motion, a judgment of non-pros was rendered, an affidavit being filed in court of the fact, that the other obligor was living, and that no process had been sued out or served upon him.
*71The title of the act of 1825, ch. 167, is “an act to prevent the unnecessary accumulation of costs in civil suitsand that is the object of the act throughout. The first section provides,…
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