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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
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480 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
witness, of his, Bowie's, understanding of the agreement or
marriage settlement with Stoddert, upon the intermariage of
the complainants, Robert and Elizabeth, which was, that "he
had agreed with Major Stoddert, to give his said son Robert
from six to ten thousand dollars, and asked witness whether he
had not the option to give the lowest sum, Major Stoddert
claiming the larger amount." Robert Bowic deposes that he
had always understood from his uncle, Robert W. Bowie, in
conversations before and after the marriage, "that he and Ma-
jor Stoddert had agreed to set up their said children in life free
and unincumbered, and to support them for twelve months until
they made a crop; that before the marriage, various proposi-
tions were made for the purchase of farms of different values,
and finally, before the marriage, Robert W. Bowie informed
witness, that he had proposed to Major Stoddert the purchase of
the "Nottingham Farm," and that it met Major Stoddert's views
as to the value of a farm proper for them. He had repeated
conversations with Robert W. Bowie after the marriage, in
which he complained that Major Stoddert had not complied
with his part of the contract, by deeding the property to his
daughter, while he considered himself as having nearly per-
formed his part of it. But his, Robert W. Bowie's views on
that subject as to the extent of the provision he was to make
were not as great after the marriage as they had been before
it. Robert W. Bowie never denied that he made such con-
tract."
Here is a contract sought to be established for a large amount,
on an occasion important to the parties, of which there is no
particle in writing, nor any evidence of a contract solemnly en-
tered into by parol before witnesses, and is to be established
by the loose admissions of one of the parties alone, made at
different times to different witnesses, which do not agree with
one another, nor possess that certainty and mutuality which should
pertain to every contract. Robert W. Bowie admits before and
after the marriage to Robert Bowie, or as the latter says, "never
denied that he had made a contract," but when and where, and
on what terms was it made ? Stoddert was to furnish land, and

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