Case Name: Edward Dorsey, of Edward, Assignee of Edward Dorsey, against Peter Barnes
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1790-05
Citations: 2 Md. 477
Docket Number: 
Parties: Edward Dorsey, of Edward, Assignee of Edward Dorsey, against Peter Barnes.
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: 477–477

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
MAY TERM, 1790.
Edward Dorsey, of Edward, Assignee of Edward Dorsey, against Peter Barnes.
S. Chase, for plaintiff.
Sprigg, for defendant.

Opinion:
THIS was an action of debt upon a bond assigned under seal, but without the oath prescribed by the act of 1763, c. 23. brought by the assignee against the obligor. The defendant demurred generally, and the Court (Johnson, Ch. J. and Goi.dsborougu, J.) gave judgment on the demurrer for the defendant.
J. T. Chase, J. having been, counsel in this cause, previous to his appointment as judge, did not sit.