Case Name: Cheney's Lessee vs. Watkins
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1802-05
Citations: 1 H. & J. 295
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cheney’s Lessee vs. Watkins.
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: 295–295

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
MAY TERM, 1802.
Cheney’s Lessee vs. Watkins.
Defence on a warrant may be changed to generate defence on the defendant’s paying the costs of the survey
Ejectment. The defendant had taken defence on warrant at a preceding term, and the lands were lo-eated on the plots returned in the cause.
Johnson moved for leave to change the defence on warrant, to that of general defence.

Opinion:
The Court. Let the defence be changed, upon the defendant's paying the costs of the present survey.