McClellan v. Kennedy
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The record in this case is very voluminous, but the following brief statement of the material facts, together with the report of the opinion of the chancellor, in 3 Md. Ch. Dec., 234, will sufficiently explain the decision of this court: Richard Bonnet Mitchell, about the year 1809, married Mrs. Elizabeth Bedford, the daughter of Daniel Deady, Esq., then a widow and the mother of Henrietta A. Bedford.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The record in this case is very voluminous, but the following brief statement of the material facts, together with the report of the opinion of the chancellor, in 3 Md. Ch. Dec., 234, will sufficiently explain the decision of this court: Richard Bonnet Mitchell, about the year 1809, married Mrs. Elizabeth Bedford, the daughter of Daniel Deady, Esq., then a widow and the mother of Henrietta A. Bedford. By this marriage Mitchell had two daughters, Elizabeth and Maria, the latter of whom was born on the 9th of March 1816, and both being entitled to a large…
1Opinion of the Court
Tuck, J.,
delivered .the opinion of this court.
Whatever might have been the result of the proceedings instituted by Mrs. Bedford, in April 1826, to vacate tbe deeds of March and August 1825, if that case had not been compromised, there cannot be entertained a reasonable doubt that the property mentioned in the deed- from Glenn, Kennedy and Mitchell to her, dated the 2nd of August 1827, and by her conveyed to Hillen, on the 18th of October of the same year, was thereby made responsible for the claim, of Mrs. McClellan against her father, and also for the debts of R. B. Mitchell contained in the…
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