Lane v. Fallen
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. The bill, in this case, filed on the 8th of June 1857, by the appellants against the appellees, alleges, that before the intermarriage of the complainants, the said Mary loaned money to the said Ann, who had a separate estate, consisting of real and leasehold property, to assist the said Ann in improving her property; that a part of the money was returned and the note of the said Ann, for $62.32, was given to the Said Mary…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. The bill, in this case, filed on the 8th of June 1857, by the appellants against the appellees, alleges, that before the intermarriage of the complainants, the said Mary loaned money to the said Ann, who had a separate estate, consisting of real and leasehold property, to assist the said Ann in improving her property; that a part of the money was returned and the note of the said Ann, for $62.32, was given to the Said Mary for the balance, and the bill prays that the said Ann may be decreed to pay this note out of her separate estate, and for…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
The clepree appealed from dismissed the bill, upon the *357ground, that the judgment presented in defence is a proper set-off against the claim of the complainants. Believing, as we do, that the circumstances disclosed by the record are ¡sufficient to sustain the decision below, the decree will be affirmed. See Smith & Talbott vs. Donnell, 9 Gill, 89. Ferris, et al., vs. Burton, 1 Vermont Rep., 439, 455.
(Decided July 11th, 1860.)
Decree affirmed, with costs to the appellees.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Smith v. DonnellCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1850
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