Owens v. Bowie
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Prince Georges county court. This was an attachment upon a judgment in favor of the appellants, (the plaintiffs below,) against the appellee, Sprigg, rendered in Prince Georges county court. The attachment was laid in the hands of Robert Bowie and Robert W. Bowie, wTho were summoned as garnishees.
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Appeal from Prince Georges county court. This was an attachment upon a judgment in favor of the appellants, (the plaintiffs below,) against the appellee, Sprigg, rendered in Prince Georges county court. The attachment was laid in the hands of Robert Bowie and Robert W. Bowie, wTho were summoned as garnishees. The case was submitted to the court below upon an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows: It is agreed, that the plaintiffs and one Evan Evans, since deceased, were, in 1843, at the date of the rendition of the judgment on which the attachment issued, ■citizens of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Eccleston, J..,.
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellants- and Evan Evans, who has since died, sold *465and delivered goods to Osborn Sprigg, in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, for which a promissory note was executed in Maryland. In 1843 a judgment was obtained upon this note in Prince Georges county court, by the appellants and Evan Evans against Osborn Sprigg, on which judgment an attachment was issued the 1st of December 1846, and sometime after the 2nd day of that month, and prior to the' first Monday of April 1847, was laid in the hands of R. Bowie and R. W.…
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