Case Name: Richardson's Lessee vs. Parsons
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1802-04
Citations: 1 H. & J. 253
Docket Number: 
Parties: Richardson's Lessee vs. Parsons.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the General Court and Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland, form 1800 ... [to 1826]
Volume: 1
Pages: 253–253

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT, (E. S.)
APRIL TERM, 1802.
Richardson's Lessee vs. Parsons.
A verdict in a former suit where tje judgment; was reversed for error in fact, is not evidence in a trial on a new ejectment
EjectmeNT for Richardson’s Discovery and Con- ° elusion, lying in Worcester county.
The counsel for the defendant objected to tiie ver-diet in a former suit being evidence, because thejudgment was reversed for error in fact, the defendant having died before the verdict was takenj and they cited 1 Sira. J62. 1 Morgan’s Essays, 94. Gilb. 63. Showers Pari. Cases.
Hammond and Bullitt, for the Plaintiff.
Martin, (Attorney General,) and Harper, for the .Defendant.

Opinion:
Chase, Ch. J.
The court are of opinion, that the verdict cannot he received as evidence, inasmuch as the judgment was reversed for error in fact, the defendant being dead at the time and two days before the verdict was given. The judgment being reversed on that ground, there was no legal trial or verdict in tiie case.