Gittings v. Worthington
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeals from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The decree from which these appeals are taken provided for a sale of the entire tract of land in controversy, the improved as well as the unimproved portions, making to the owners of the improved portions a proportionate allowance for the value of all beneficial, permanent improvements of the said property, according to its present improved condition, and a proportionate allowance for all such taxes and insurance as may have…
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Appeals from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The decree from which these appeals are taken provided for a sale of the entire tract of land in controversy, the improved as well as the unimproved portions, making to the owners of the improved portions a proportionate allowance for the value of all beneficial, permanent improvements of the said property, according to its present improved condition, and a proportionate allowance for all such taxes and insurance as may have been paid by them for-the times respectively, during which they were required to account for rents and'profits. The case…
1Opinion of the CourtBryan, J.
This is the second appeal in this case. On the first appeal it was decided by this Court, that the children of
*145Mrs. Worthington were entitled to one-sixth of the real •estate sold under the decree of 1833, and that the heirs-at-law of Moses L. Knapp, were entitled to one-sixth of one-sixth of the same property. Long vs. Long, 62 Md., 33. The bill filed in the case, sought a partition of the land devised by the will of Kennedy Long. The complainants were not in possession, and their title was denied by the defendants. The question of the jurisdiction of a Court of equity to decree a partition…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Long v. LongCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1884
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- Ferris v. Montgomery Land & Improvement Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1891
- Worthington v. HissCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1889
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- Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. BowersCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1989
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