This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1853 |
| Citation: | 5 Md. 471 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | |
| Short Summary: | Dispute over if real estate acquired after the date of a will, but before his death, passed into the testator's estate. Holding that the debt incurred from this transaction was a part of the estate and therefore the estate's creditors were entitled to sell slaves at auction to pay the debts. Holding "Each law confers on the testator a new power or capacity, and clothes the will with a new operative quality." |
| Law type: | |
| Full name: | Thomas S. Alexander vs. Sarah M. Worthington and William Worthington, an infant, by his next friend |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |