Case Name: The State, for the use of Joseph M'Reily, against Covington Wailes
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1794-10
Citations: 3 Md. 241
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State, for the use of Joseph M‘Reily, against Covington Wailes.
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: 3
Pages: 241–242

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
OCTOBER TERM, 1794.
The State, for the use of Joseph M‘Reily, against Covington Wailes.
THIS was an action of debt on a sheriff’s bond, taken under the act of 1715, c. 46. The defendant pleaded general performance, and the plaintiff replied non-per formance, assigning for breach, an escape under a capias ad respondendum. (See the plea in 2 Harr. Ent. 403.) The defendant demurred generally to the replication.
Pinkney, for the appellant.
Kiltyi for the appellee.

Opinion:
The Court
gave judgment on the demurrer for the de-
fendant.
The plaintiff appealed to the court of appeals, and, in that court, at November term, 1796, the judgment was. affirmed.