Cox v. Hill
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Equity Side of the- Circuit Court for Prince George’s county. This was a bill of interpleader filed by the appellee, Clement, Hill, to have ascertained to whom he should pay a certain single bill for $3500, executed by himself as principal, and his mother, Mrs. Ann S. Hill as surety, in favor of Mrs. Cornelia Lansdale.
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Appeal from the Equity Side of the- Circuit Court for Prince George’s county. This was a bill of interpleader filed by the appellee, Clement, Hill, to have ascertained to whom he should pay a certain single bill for $3500, executed by himself as principal, and his mother, Mrs. Ann S. Hill as surety, in favor of Mrs. Cornelia Lansdale. The appellant, Cox, claimed the debt as surviving husband of his wife, Eliza Cox, who was a daughter of Mrs. Lansdale, and to whom he alleged it had been assigned by the paper writing, dated the 8th of August 1843, set out in the opinion of this court. Sprigg…
1Opinion of the CourtLe Grand, C. J.
The bill in this case was filed by Clement Hill, for the pur-* pose of having determined, by the proper judicial tribunals, to-whom he was to pay a sum of money due by him on a single-bill, executed in favor of Mrs. Cornelia Lansdale, now deceased. The facts which it is important we should notice? may be thus stated: Mr. Hill, to secure the payment of a sum of money borrowed from Mrs. Lansdale, executed what he' calls his single bill in her favor, payable five years after date.
On the 8th of August 1843, she executed and delivered toiler daughter, Mrs. Cox, wife of John F. Cox, the following…
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