Case ID: h-mch_1/html/0008-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DECEMBER, 1662.
    Lib. S.
    John Abington against William Lowry.
    ORDERED, That a writ issue to the sheriff of Calvert County, to impanel a Jury to .inquire upon the place, whether the land here claimed by the plaintiff against the defendant be included within the bounds of the patent granted to the plaintiff, dated 24th January, 1661, and that they return their verdict to the next Provincial Court.
   At the next Court the sheriff returned the panel and verdict of the Jury, viz. “ We ©f the Jury are mutually “ agreed, that the housing and cleared ground now in dis- “ pute betwixt John Abington and William Lowry, doth fall within the bounds of the said John Abington’s pa- “ tent; and this is our verdict, to which we are all a agreecL”

The judgment of the Board was, that the said Abington, plaintiff, possess his land according to the Jury’s verdict, and to have costs of suit allowed him from the defendant.