Tuck v. Calvert
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeals from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, in Equity. The bill of complaint in this case was filed on the 7th of November, 1865, by some of the judgment creditors of Thomas F. Bowie, against him and his other judgment creditors, for the sale of his real and personal estate for the payment of debts.
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Appeals from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, in Equity. The bill of complaint in this case was filed on the 7th of November, 1865, by some of the judgment creditors of Thomas F. Bowie, against him and his other judgment creditors, for the sale of his real and personal estate for the payment of debts. The bill charged that the debtor’s property was about to be sold under executions which had been levied thereon, and that a sale by the sheriff would be disastrous to the interests of the creditors, and especially of the junior judgment creditors, and that it would be better for all…
1Opinion of the CourtMaulsby, J.
The appeals in this ease, in one record, present three questions, which will be treated in the following order:
First: As to the right of Washington J. Beall, Executor of Wm. Z. Beall, to an allowance, out of the fund to be distributed, of the amount paid by him for purchase money, for which his testator was responsible as security for Thomas F. Bowie, the purchaser.
In 1855 Thomas F. Bowie bought of J. A. Osbourn a tract of land in Prince George’s County, called Brookefield, and gave him his two single bills, with Wm. Z. Beall and Fielder Bowie as securities, each in the sum of four thousand…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Fulton v. NicholsonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1854
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