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1154 PLEA.DINGS, PRACTICE AND PROCESS AT LAW. [ART. 75.
habitually engages in any avocation or employment in another
county, may be sued in either county; this section not to apply to
ejectment, dower, replevin, scire facias, or judgment or decree,
nor to heirs, devisees or terre-tenants, against whom process may
be issued to another county.
Redgrave v. Jones, 1 H & McH 195. Hoffman v. Prout, 4 H & McH. 165.
Deale v. Estep, 3 Bl. 433. Cape Sable Case, 3 Bl 656. Beall n. Brown, 7 Md.
393. Hamilton v. State, 32 Md 348. Gittings v. State, 33 Md. 458. State v.
Gittings, 35 Md 169 Yoe v. Gelston, 37 Md 223. Tyler v. Murray, 57 Md.
435. Ireton v. M. & C. C. of Balto., 61 Md. 432. B. & Y. T. Co. v. Crowther,
63 Md. 571
P. G. L., (1860.) art. 75, sec. 88. 1785, ch. 87, sec. 4. 1834, ch. 329.
133. If any trespass shall be committed on any real property,
and the person committing the same shall remove from the
county where such property may lie, or cannot be found in such
county, such trespasser may be sued in any county where he may
be found; and an executor may be sued either in the county
where he resides or where he obtained administration.
Patterson v. Wilson, 6 G. & J. 499. Crook v. Pitcher, 61 Md. 510. B. & Y.
T. Co. v. Crowther, 63 Md 571.
Ibid. 89. 1860, ch. 29.
134. Any captain, master or owner of any steamboat or other
vessel may be sued for the non-delivery or injury of any goods or
chattels, in the county where the goods or chattels are received
on board of his vessel, or in the city or county in which the
delivery was by the contract to be made, in the same manner as
he can now be sued in the county in which he resides.
Ibid sec. 90. 1704, ch. 92, sec. 3.
135. Every county lying on any navigable river in this State
shall extend its jurisdiction from the shore to the channel of the
river that divides the counties, except where a dividing line has
been fixed in such river by law; and where any ship or other
vessel shall be in said river, process may be served on board the
said ship or vessel by the officers of either county that can first
serve it; but if she is moored or fastened to the land on either
side of said river, then she shall be considered as in the county
to whose shore she is fastened.
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