Case Name: Dorsey vs. Smith
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1828-06
Citations: 2 H. & G. 135
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dorsey vs. Smith.
Judges: 
Reporter: Harris and Gill
Volume: 2
Pages: 135–136

Head Matter:
Dorsey vs. Smith.
June, 1828.
An appeal from the order of the chancellor dissolving an injunction will not lie. It is an abuse of the right of appeal, and will be censured accordingly.
Arpead from the Court of Chancery from an order of the chancdlor, dissolving an injunction obtained by the appellant. .against the appellee, enjoining him from proceeding on a judgment at law.
Motion on the part of the appellee to dismiss the appeal; and it was ruled by the court that the appellant show cause, &c on or before, #c. Before which day the appellant, in person, dismissed his appeal.
H. Johnson, for the Appellee,
(not knowing that the appellant had dismissed his appeal,) called the attention of the court to the motion, heretofore made in this case, to dismiss the appeal — the rule on the appellant to show cause, §-c. having been served, &c. He stated that it was an appeal from an order of the chancellor, dissolving an injunction, which had been before then issued to stay the appellee from proceeding against the appellant upon a judgment at law.

Opinion:
The Court.
It appearing that the appellant has himself dismissed the appeal, the motion is necessarily disposed of; but as it may be advantageous to have the opinion of the court known as to the legality of appeals from orders of this kind, the court take this occasion to declare that they are unanimously of opinion that such appeals will not lie, and that they will consider them an abuse of the right to appeal, and will censure them accordingly.
APPEAL DISMISSED.