ART. 75] SPECIAL FINDINGS OF FACTS——PROCESS. 499

of either party, require the jury, in addition to rendering a gen-
eral verdict for the plaintiff or defendant, to find specially upon
any particular questions of facts, material to the issues on trial,
which questions shall be in writing; and in all cases at law where
issues of facts are tried before a court without a jury, the said
court, at the written request of either party, find specially upon
any question of facts which it may deem necessary to be deter-
mined in order to arrive at its verdict. All such special findings
of facts, whether by the jury or by the court, shall be in writing,
and must be filed with the clerk as part of the record of the case,
and in civil cases where a special finding of facts shall be incon-
sistent with the general verdict rendered at the same trial, the
former shall control the latter and the court must give judgment
accordingly; but nothing herein contained shall limit the court's
power to grant a new trial or to arrest judgment on motion.

Balto. Traction Co. v. Appel, 80 Md. 611. B. & O. R. R. Co. v. Cain, 81
Md. 105. Dorsey v. Habersack, 84 Md. 128

PROCESS.

1898, ch 255.

132. No person shall be sued out of the county in which he
resides until the sheriff or coroner of the county in which he
resides shall have returned a non est on a summons issued in
such county; provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply
to any person who shall ^abscond from justice in the county where
he lives, but such person may be sued in any county where he
may be found; and provided, further, that any person who resides
in one county but carries on any regular business, or habitually
engages in any avocation or employment in another county, may
be sued in either county, whether before a justice of the peace
or in a court of law or equity; this section not to apply to eject-
ment, dower, replevin, scire facias on judgment or decree, nor
to heirs, devisees or terretenants, against whom process may be
issued to another county.