Case Name: State of Maryland against Stump and Gilpin
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1787-04
Citations: 2 Md. 174
Docket Number: 
Parties: State of Maryland against Stump and Gilpin.
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: 2
Pages: 174–175

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT, (EASTERN SHORE,)
APRIL TERM, 1787.
State of Maryland against Stump and Gilpin.
THIS was an action of debt, upon a writing obligatory, bearing date the 14th June, 1785, executed by the defendants to the State of Maryland, and conditioned for the payment of 157/. 3s. 9d. current money, or in specie certificates, bearing interest, issued by the State, on or before the 1st of January, 1790, and legal interest on the same, payable as aforesaid annually and punctually at the end of every year, according to an act of assembly, passed at November session, 1784, entitled, “ an act to establish funds to secure the payment of the State debt, within six years, and for the punctual payment of the annual interest thereon.” The writ issued the 5th January, 1787, and was endorsed, that the suit was brought for one year’s interest being 9/. 8s. 7 1-2d. specie.
The following case was submitted for the opinion of the Court, viz.
The defendants bring into Court the whole costs in this suit amounting to 3/. 14s. 6d. current money of Maryland, and they -also bring into Court a certificate, granted by the State of Maryland to a certain T. Williams, for the payment of 60/. specie, with interest from the 1st of August, 1780, which certificate was granted and issued according to the act of assembly, to settle and adjust the accounts of the troops of this state, in the service of the United States, and for other purposes therein mentioned, (the sum of 9/. 8.v. 7 1-2d. being one year’s interest due on the bond, on which this action is brought,) and lodge the same in Court, and pray that the state may receive the same, and that they may be discharged of this suit, and go thereof without day. And the state refusing to receive the same, judgment is given for the State, subject to the opinion of the Court, whether the defendants are entitled to bring into Court and pay the interest aforesaid, in manner aforesaid; and if it shall be the opinion of the Court, that the defendants have a right so to do, then judgment to be entered for the defendants.

Opinion:
The Court. It is the opinion of the Court, that the defendants are entitled to bring into Court and pay the interest, in manner aforesaid. Judgment, that the defendants be discharged from all further proceedings in this action, and go thereof without day.
(Hanson and Goldshorough, J.)
The State, by its Attorney-General, appealed to the Court of Appeals, where, at May term, 1788, the judgment was affirmed.