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17 Md. 75

Cherry v. Baker

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided March 26, 1861

Court of Appeals of Maryland · decided 1861-03-26

Action, brought on the !2lh of July 1859, by the appellee against the appellant, to recover money paid and for professional services as a lawyer, rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant. The suit was originally brought in the Superior court of Baltimore city. The defendant appeared by counsel in that court, and the record shows that a commission to take testimony was issued, by consent, to H. C. Wright, of New York city, on the 13th of January 1858.

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Decided 1861-03-26

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Bartol, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of this court.

¶2In the progress of this cause a great many points were made and exceptions taken, ali of which are set out in the record and bills of exception. But in the argument in this court, most of them were abandoned, and are not, therefore, necessary to be noticed.

¶3The only questions discussed before us, and upon which we are asked to reverse the judgment, arise upon the third and fifth bills of exception, and involve the question of the admissibility of tire evidence taken and returned under the commission executed in New York. The appellant contends that the commission issued irregularly, and not in conformity with the 29th rule of the Superior court for Baltimore city. But the record nowhere informs us what the 29th rule of that court is; and as we cannot take judicial notice of the rules regulating the course of proceedings in the inferior courts, this objection has nothing to sustain it. In the absence of proof, the presumption is, that the proceedings had in the court below were in conformity with its own rules.

¶4The record does not sustain the other objection made by the appellant to the commission. The commission was issued, by the consent of parties, on the 13th day of January 1858. The interrogatories of the plaintiff were sent with the commission, with the endorsement thereon by the defendant’s attorney, acknowledging service.

¶5This endorsement, as it appears in the record, is dated July 23th, 1858. But it is manifest that the date is erroneous. The commission was returned executed on the 31st of March 1858, and the interrogatories, with the endorsement of “service admitted,” were returned with it. In the face of this evidence, apparent on the record, that the defendant consented to the issuing of the commission, and, admitted service of *78the interrogatories before the commission was issued, he cannot be heard to object that the commission issued irregularly and without notice.

(Decided March 26th, 1861.)

¶6Judgment affirmed,

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