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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
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STODDERT VS. BOWIE. 479
expressing your desire to take the purchase off my hands, I
have only to say, that I am quite willing to let you have it at
cost. The house ia very comfortably fitted up, with quite as
much furniture as young beginners ought to have." In this
letter, I see no evidence either of a concluded contract or of
any definite terms of a contract proposed or concluded, and
there is no other reference to be found in any part of the testi-
mony to this conference at Washington.
A few days after the marriage, Mr. Bowie being at Stod-
dert's, in consequence of the illness of one of his daughters, and
Dr. Macubbin being present attending as a physician, the latter
testifies to a conversation which then took place between them.
Bowie pressed Stoddert to purchase the "Nottingham Farm"
for his daughter, saying that if he would do so, he himself would
furnish his son Robert with personal property to the amount
of ten thousand dollars, the object of the two being to start the
young couple in life. He also recollects hearing Stoddert say
that Bowie and himself would furnish them with a very pretty
start. Bowie also said, that he would furnish his said son and
wife with necessaries for the first year after their marriage, to
prevent them from anticipating their crops. This is all very
vague, and seems to be rather propositions and expressions of
intentions at that time than references to a positive agreement
entered into at an antecedent period. If any contract then,
between Bowie and Stoddert is to be found in this case, we
must look for the evidence of its terms solely in the admissions
of Bowie in his conversations with the different witnesses. And
first, Dr. Maccubbin says, that prior to the marriage, Bowie
stated to him in conversation, "that Stoddert exacted as a pre-
liminary condition to the marriage that Robert W. Bowie, Jr.,
should be relieved from debt, and that he, Robert W. Bowie,
would place him in that condition by the payment or assump-
tion of all his liabilities." Whether Robert W. Bowie had sub-
mitted to this exaction, and whether it constituted a part of the
contract does not appear.
Thomas F. Bowie says, that Robert W. Bowie consulted him
with reference to this alleged agreement, and told him, the

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