Case Name: Contee vs. Beall
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1804-05
Citations: 1 H. & J. 485
Docket Number: 
Parties: Contee vs. Beall.
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: 485–485

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
MAY TERM, 1804.
Contee vs. Beall.
A general demurrer, or any plea going to the merits, wil) be received at any time to save a nonpros*
Debt on bond. The defendant having filed his plea at the last term, had a rale laid on the plaintiff to reply by the rule day, the 20th February last. At this term, the plaintiff not having filed his replication,
Van Morn, for the defendant,
moved for a judgment of non pros, under the rule.
Buchanan, for the plaintiff,
offered to enter a general demurrer to the plea, which was objected to by the defendant’s counsel.

Opinion:
The Court.
This court will receive the general demurrer, or any plea going to the merits, in order to prevent a non pros.