Case Name: Robert Goldsborough et Ux. Lessee against Elizabeth Hawkins
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1745-09
Citations: 1 Md. 157
Docket Number: Lib. E. J. No. 9. fol. 473
Parties: Robert Goldsborough et Ux. Lessee against Elizabeth Hawkins.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases argued and determined in the Provincial Court and Court of Appeals of the then province of Maryland, from the year 1700 [i.e. 1658] down to the [end of 1799]
Volume: 1
Pages: 157–158

Head Matter:
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1745.
Lib. E. J. No. 9. fol. 473.
Robert Goldsborough et Ux. Lessee against Elizabeth Hawkins.

Opinion:
EJECTMENT for a tract of land called Jasper Lott9 lying in §>iieen Anne's County.
At the trial of the cause, the Jury found by their special verdict, That Major John Hawkins was seised in fee of the land in question, and devised them to Michael Turbutt, and to the lessor of the plaintiff Marian, " to them " and their heirs for ever, and to be equally divided be- " tween them, if they both lived to enjoy the same ; but if " they both died before they came of age to have and en~ e' joy it," then to his son Ernault Hawkins and his heirs for ever. That the devisee Michael died before he came of age, after whose death Ernault Hawkins entered into the land in question, and became thereof possessed. That Marian, the wife of the lessor of the plaintiff, was of age.
The Court gave judgment upon the special verdict for ^ pla^ntiff; which judgment was affirmed by the Court of Appeals at October Term, 1749.