Case Name: Henry Ridgely, Assignee of Thomas Hall, against Josiah Lee
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1791-10
Citations: 3 Md. 94
Docket Number: 
Parties: Henry Ridgely, Assignee of Thomas Hall, against Josiah Lee.
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: 3
Pages: 94–95

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
OCTOBER TERM, 1791.
Henry Ridgely, Assignee of Thomas Hall, against Josiah Lee.
THIS was an action- of debt on a writing obligatory for the sum of 3,082l. 9s. 7d. current money, conditioned for the payment of certain sums of money on certain days therein mentioned, by way of instalments. The whole of the instalments were not due at the trial.

Opinion:
Verdict for the plaintiff, and judgment for the sum of 3,082l. 9s. 7d. current money, debt and costs. On motion of the plaintiff, by his counsel, it was ruled by the court that the plaintiff have liberty to levy by execution, the sum of 504/. 16s. 4 d. current money, being such part of the principal sum of money, and interest due, by the condition of the writing obligatory, mentioned in the declaration in this cause, on the 1st day of January, 1791; but the judgment to stand as a security for future arrears of principal and interest, with liberty to apply to this court, from time to time, to sue fresh executions thereon. -