Case ID: md_242/html/0711-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GRAHAM et al. v. JENKINS
    [No. 290,
    September Term, 1965.]
    
      Decided April 25, 1966.
    
    The cause was argued before Prescott, C. J., and Hammond, Marbury, Barnes and McWieeiams, JJ., and Carter, J., Chief Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.
    
      Andrew Jackson Graham, with whom were Julian S. Brewer, Jr., and Harry I. Kaplan on the brief, for the appellants.
    No brief and no appearance for the appellee.
   Per Curiam.

Appellants were sued by the appellee in an action claiming damages for an alleged libel. They demurred to the declaration. Appellee requested an immediate hearing on the demurrer, and it was twice assigned for such a hearing, but on both occasions it was postponed at the request of appellants’ counsel. Before hearing on the demurrer, the appellants filed notices to take the depositions of 17 persons and 13 orders to issue writs of subpoena duces tecum. At the request of one of the prospective deponents, Judge Evans signed an order directing that “no depositions be taken for use in the * * * case until after the defendants’ demurrer shall have been ruled upon by this court [the trial court].” Appellants appealed, and no brief was filed by the appellee.

Apart from the fact that the order seems to be no more than a proper exercise of the authority granted the trial judge by Maryland Rule 405 a 3, it is an interlocutory order from which no immediate appeal will lie.

Appeal dismissed; appellants to pay the costs.