Case Name: Lord Proprietary against Edward Wright
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1722-09
Citations: 1 Md. 49
Docket Number: Lib. P. L. No. 7. fol. 103
Parties: Lord Proprietary against Edward Wright.
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: 49–50

Head Matter:
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1722.
Lib. P. L. No. 7. fol. 103.
Lord Proprietary against Edward Wright.
THIS was an action of debt on a sheriff’s bond. Performance of conditions was pleaded. Replication that the sheriff ought to make due return of all writs and process, &c. That he returned a writ of attachment so negligently that it was quashed, and the plaintiff obliged to pay costs. Rejoinder. That the said sheriff was not obli ged to return the said writ of attachment, or any other writs, process or warrants, to him directed, in due form of law; that he returned the writ according to the best of his power, skill, and knowledge, and traverses the negligence.
Dulany, Attorney-General.
Howard and Bordley, for defendant.

Opinion:
Special Demurrer. That the rejoinder is no answer, the traverse immaterial and improper, and the conclusion improper. That the matter contained in the rejoinder is such as no issue can be taken upon, and it is uncertain, insufficient, &c. (See 2 Harris's Entries, 574. for the re - plication and other pleas at length.)
Judgment on the demurrer for the Lord Proprietary. ,