Dugan v. Gittings
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the equity side of Baltimore county court. The bill was filed on the 3rd January 1837, by John S. Gittings and Eleanor A., his wife, and James C. Gittings and Rebecca N., his wife, and alleged, that Cumberland Dugan was in 1798, seized and possessed of a veiy large real and personal estate.
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Appeal from the equity side of Baltimore county court. The bill was filed on the 3rd January 1837, by John S. Gittings and Eleanor A., his wife, and James C. Gittings and Rebecca N., his wife, and alleged, that Cumberland Dugan was in 1798, seized and possessed of a veiy large real and personal estate. At this period the said C. D. had three children, one of whom, his daughter A. D., was then addressed by J. P., who afterwards became her husband; and another daughter, Margaret Dugan, who was then also addressed by William R. Smith, who afterwards became her husband, to whom respectively the…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
It appears from the record in this case, that the original decree was passed by Baltimore county court, as a court of equity, on the 24th of March 1841. The final decree ratifying and confirming the auditor’s report, was pronounced on the 25th of March 1843. An appeal was taken on the part of all of the defendants from this decree, on the 10th of October of the same year, but the appeal which was entered by the infant *152defendants having been dismissed, the case is presented upon the appeal alone of Mis. Margaret Dugan, John Smith Hollins and wife, and Robert S. Hollins and wife.
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