Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Justices of the Levy Court v. Dorsey

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided December 15, 1830PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Cross appeals from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of Debt brought in the name of The State of Maryland, for the use of the Justices of the Levy Court of Baltimore county, on the 14th of March, 1826, against the appellees, John II. Dorsey, Nicholas Dorsey, Frederick Grapevine, and Leonard Ponder, on a bond to the State of Maryland, dated and approved on the 2d of March, 1824, in the penalty of $ 15,499, with the following condition.

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Cross appeals from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of Debt brought in the name of The State of Maryland, for the use of the Justices of the Levy Court of Baltimore county, on the 14th of March, 1826, against the appellees, John II. Dorsey, Nicholas Dorsey, Frederick Grapevine, and Leonard Ponder, on a bond to the State of Maryland, dated and approved on the 2d of March, 1824, in the penalty of $ 15,499, with the following condition. “Whereas the said John H. Dorsey hath been appointed by the Justices of the Levy Court for Baltimore county, one of the collectors of the county tax…

1Opinion of the Court

Buchanan, Ch. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

John H. Dorsey, one of the defendants, was appointed by the Levy Court of Baltimore county, on the 19th of February, 1824, one of the collectors of the county tax for the city of Baltimore for the year 1823, and on the 2d of March, 18.24, he gave his bond to the State, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as such collector, with the other defendants as his sureties. Upon that bond this suit was brought, to which the defendants pleaded. [Here the Judge referred to the pleadings and judgment of the county court as before set…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Dashiell v. Mayor of BaltimoreCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1877
  2. Logan v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1874
  3. Le Strange v. State ex rel. RocheCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1882
  4. State ex rel. Henderson v. HendersonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1880
  5. State ex rel. Mayor of Baltimore v. NorwoodCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1858

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