Case Name: Richard Ridgely, Executor of Greenbury Ridgely, use of Wallace and Muir, against Aaron Gartrell, Terretenant of Joseph Burgess
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1796-05
Citations: 3 Md. 449
Docket Number: 
Parties: Richard Ridgely, Executor of Greenbury Ridgely, use of Wallace and Muir, against Aaron Gartrell, Terretenant of Joseph Burgess.
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: 449–451

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
MAY TERM, 1796.
Richard Ridgely, Executor of Greenbury Ridgely, use of Wallace and Muir, against Aaron Gartrell, Terretenant of Joseph Burgess.
THIS was a scire facias upon a judgment at May-term, 1787, for 253/. 9s. 8d. debt and costs»
The following case stated, was submitted for the Court’s opinion, viz.
At May term, 1787, the plaintiff obtained judgment against Joseph Burgess for the amount of the debt and costs recited in the scire facias, which judgment hath not been paid, or in any manner satisfied. At the time of the rendition of tlie said judgment, the said Joseph Burgess was seised in fee of a tract of land called Burgess’s Lookout, situate in Anne Atundel county, containing 276 acres, of riiore value than the amount of the said debt and Costs.
It is admitted that, on the 16th óf November, 1791, Elizabeth Brown’s execiitors obtained judgment, in Anne Arundel county court, against the said Joseph Burgess, for the sum of 100/. current money and costs. That on the 14th of March, 17W2, (the said judgment being in full force and kept alive,) a fieri facias issued to the sheriff of Anne Arundel coünty, on the said last-mentioned judgment, and in the inonth of May following the said sheriff, in virtue of his said precept, sold at public sale the said tract of land called Burgess’s Lookout to the said Aaron Gartrell, who was the highest bidder, and purchaser thereof for a valuable consideration. That the said Aaron Gartrell, in compliance with the terms of the said sale, on the 25th of May, 1792, paid the said purchase-money, arid obtained a deed from the sheriff of A.nné Atundel county, under which he now claims the said tract of land. That a scire facias hath issued against the said Aairon Gartrell, as terretenant, by the plaintiff in this cause, to make the said tract of land answerable for the plaintiff’s judgment.
The question submitted to the court for their opinion is, whether the judgment of the plaintiff is a lien on the said tract of land in the hands of the defendant, a purchaser under the sheriff’s sale ? If it is, then judgment sobe entered for the plaintiff," if it ic not, then judgment for the defendant.
t R. Ridgely, for the plaintiff.
J. Dorsey, for the defendant.

Opinion:
The Court
gave judgment for the plaintiff upon the statement of facts.