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SHELLEY v. SMITH

[No. 200, September Term, 1967.]

249 Md. 619 (1968)

241 A.2d 682

SHELLEY, ET AL., ETC. v. SMITH, ETC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 3, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl A. Durkee for appellants.

D. Franklin McGinnis for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, BARNES, McWILLIAMS and SINGLEY, JJ.

McWILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1777, during the Easter Term of the Court of King's Bench, Goodright ex dim. Stevens v. Moss et al.,1 came on for a hearing before William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield, then the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Afton and Mr. Justice Willes. Lord Mansfield "was inspired — apparently by some brooding omnipresence in the sky"

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