Stirling v. Garritee
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Action, brought. September 8th, 1857, by the appellee against the appellants, “for that the defendants converted to their own use, or wrongfully deprived the plaintiff of the use and possession of the plaintiff’s goods, that is to say, bricks, brick-kilns, wood, joists, rafters, and boards, And the plaintiff claims a re turn of said goods, or their value, and $1500 for their detention.”
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Action, brought. September 8th, 1857, by the appellee against the appellants, “for that the defendants converted to their own use, or wrongfully deprived the plaintiff of the use and possession of the plaintiff’s goods, that is to say, bricks, brick-kilns, wood, joists, rafters, and boards, And the plaintiff claims a re turn of said goods, or their value, and $1500 for their detention.” Plea, that the defendants did not commit the wrong alleged; verdict in favor of plaintiff’ for $475 damages, and motion in arrest upon the ground, among…
1Opinion of the Court
Goi,dsuorough, J.,
delivered the opinion of this court.
The appeal, in this case, was taken from an order of the Superior court of Baltimore city, overruling a motion made by the appellants for an arrest of judgment on the verdict in favour of the appellee. The appellants have assigned several *474reasons in support of the motion. The only one upon which it. is material for us to express our opinion, is the alleged insufficiency of the declaration.
Whatever view may be taken of the Act of 1856, ch. 112, under the provisions of which the appellee prosecuted this - suit, the precedent adopted by him,…
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