Wright v. Ryland

Ryland Brooks obtained judgment in the Baltimore City Court against Geo. W. Grafflin and William Coath for $457.16, on June 29th, 1887. The judgment was entered to the use of the Ryland Brooks Lumber Company which caused a scire facias to be issued thereon, in which a judgment of fiat was entered on May 8th, 1899. The only defendants to the scire facias were the original judgment debtors, no notice having been taken of their grantees or alienees.

In August, 1892, Maria Coath, the mother of the defendant, William Coath, died intestate, being the owner of a sub-ground rent of $180 per annum…