Hodges v. Owings

This is an appeal by a defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action of ejectment, tried before the court sitting as a jury.

By deed dated August 16th, 1898, Harry P. Owings and Hattie Owings, his wife, the first of whom was the owner of a tract of land in Calvert County, made a conveyance to the Chesapeake Beach Railway Company “in consideration that the Chesapeake Beach Railway Company do locate its Railroad through, in and upon lands owned by the said party of the first part in the Third District Calvert County, State of Maryland, and in further consideration of the sum…