Bonaparte v. Thayer
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas (Harlan, C. J.), where there was a verdict for the plaintiffs for $250. In the first exception, the defendant offered in evidence a copy of docket entries from the Criminal Court of Baltimore, showing that one H. D. Thayer had been indicted for false pretenses and that a stet had been entered by the State on payment of costs. Plaintiffs' ist Prayer.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas (Harlan, C. J.), where there was a verdict for the plaintiffs for $250. In the first exception, the defendant offered in evidence a copy of docket entries from the Criminal Court of Baltimore, showing that one H. D. Thayer had been indicted for false pretenses and that a stet had been entered by the State on payment of costs. Plaintiffs' ist Prayer. If the jury find that the plaintiffs, in order to pay the rent due on premises 1519 Myrtle avenue, sent the defendant the check, dated December the 1st, 1900, for ($18.50), and that the plaintiffs had paid…
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
This suit was brought to recover damages for the seizure and sale of the appellees’ goods, under a distraint alleged to have been wrongfully and illegally made, at a time when no rent was due.
The narr. contains three counts ; the first sets out the illegal distress ; the second that the appellant forcibly and unlawfully took and carried away the plaintiffs’ goods, etc.; and the third, that the appellant broke and entered the plaintiffs’ house, and seized and took possession of and carried away the appellees’ goods, whereby the plaintiffs were deprived of the use and benefit of the same. The…
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