Dorsey v. Kyle
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeals from the Circuit Court for Howard County. In July, 1861, the appellant, hearing of the illness of his wife, at her father’s, in Winchester, Virginia, left his home in Maryland for the purpose of seeing her, intending to return in a few days. Owing to the position of the Federal and Confederate forces about Winchester, the appellant, for several weeks, was unable to return home. About the 1st of September, 1861, upon information received from his brother, Wm. H..
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Appeals from the Circuit Court for Howard County. In July, 1861, the appellant, hearing of the illness of his wife, at her father’s, in Winchester, Virginia, left his home in Maryland for the purpose of seeing her, intending to return in a few days. Owing to the position of the Federal and Confederate forces about Winchester, the appellant, for several weeks, was unable to return home. About the 1st of September, 1861, upon information received from his brother, Wm. H.. G. Dorsey, and numerous friends in Maryland, as well as from the many illegal arrests there made, the appellant concluded…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
Upon a careful examination of the several records before us, we fail to discover any sufficient ground 'for sustaining the motions of the appellant to strike out the judgments of condemnation.
“ Every person who doth not reside in this State, and every person who absconds, may be made a defendant in an attachment,” is the provision in our law in regard to defendants in attachments, (1 Code, Art. 10, seo. 2;). and the term citizen-, used in the formula of the affidavit prescribed by the 4th section of the Article of the Code referred to, is to be taken as synonymous with inhabitant or permanent…
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