· 3/20/1959
McCormick v. St. Francis De Sales Church
Citations
- 149 A.2d 768
- 219 Md. 422
- 1959 Md. LEXIS 368
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that a party’s general appearance waives the right to contest the court’s lack of personal jurisdiction
- “[Maryland Rule 2-322] contemplates that no pleading (including a motion) shall be filed before a motion under that Rule.”
- “A person who denies that a court has jurisdiction and asks relief on that ground cannot ask anything of the court which is inconsistent with the want of such jurisdiction.”
- party who filed motion to quash for improper service and, thus, for lack of jurisdiction that also included defenses on the merits held to have entered general appearance and submitted to jurisdiction of the court
- appeal from order granting motion ne recipiatur to declaration
- “[T]he filing of the motion operated as a general appearance[.]”
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Judges: Henderson
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