FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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added to article seventy-five of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Pleadings, Practice and Process at Law," under
the new sub-title "Special Findings of Facts," to be known as
section 115 A, to follow section 115, and to read as follows :

New section.

115 A. In all cases where issues of fact are submitted to a
jury, the court may at its own discretion, or shall at the
request of either party, require the jury, in addition to
rendering a general 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 determined 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 inconsistent with
the general verdict rendered at the same trial, the former shall
control the latter and the court must give judgment accord-
ingly; but nothing herein contained shall limit the court's power
to grant a new trial or to arrest judgment on motion.

Approved April 3d, 1894.

Special find-
ings of fact
by court or
Jury.

CHAPTER 186.

AN ACT to sanction a deed from Enoch Pratt, Ferdinand C.
Latrobe and Robert Rennert, trustees, to the Wenstrom
Electric Company of Baltimore City.

WHEREAS, All the land, machinery, stock, patent rights and
other corporate property and franchises of the Wenstrom Con-
solidated Dynamo and Motor Company of Baltimore city,
were, under an order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City,
dated the seventh day of December, 1892, and passed in the
cause of Enoch Pratt and others, against said Wenstrom Con-
solidated Dynamo and Motor Company of Baltimore City, and
others, granted, assigned and transferred by John E. Semmes
and B. Howard Haman, receivers of the said corporation, to

Preamble.