Walter v. Alexander
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of ejectment, brought on the 19th April 1841, by John Doe, lessee of the appellants.
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Appeal from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of ejectment, brought on the 19th April 1841, by John Doe, lessee of the appellants. The plaintiff declared for the following lot: j&m Beginning, for the of South street; south, three and three-q^i^^aegrees^^y&eventy-ninefeet, three inches, from the soi»-ea^i^pÍ^ibn South and Waier streets ; and running thra^eboundin^g^i^oli/i street, south, three and three-quarters d&re^^^^rw'en^4ix feet, nine inches; thence north, eighty-s^andjimm^fer degrees east, seventy-nine feet six inches, to the divisional line between Daniel Bovdey and Jno.…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, J.
The first prayer of the plaintiff is, “that the proceedings in ejectment, given in evidence in this cause, of Merryman’s Lessee vs. Smith, do not vest any title in said Merryman, and are no bar to plaintiff’s right of recovery in this case.” The objection taken to this prayer as being too general, in not sufficiently presenting, according to the act of 1825, c. 117, the point, which the county court are required to decide, we think cannot be sustained. The points, on which the decision of that court were demanded, were, that the proceedings in the ejectment referred to did not vest any title…
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