This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1849 |
| Citation: | 2 Fla. 660 |
| Jurisdiction: | Supreme Court of FL |
| People: | |
| Short Summary: | Continuance of the Union Bank after its grant was contingent upon FL's existence as a territory and therein the validity of the bank possessing slaves as mortgages. Ruling that the intent of the legislature was clearly not to cause the bank to parish upon FL becoming a state rather than a territory. |
| Law type: | Dispute over the Bank Possessing Slaves as Mortgages |
| Full name: | Union Bank of Florida vs. S. Parkhill's Administrators de bonis non; S. Parkhill's Administrators de bonis non vs. Union Bank of Florida |
| Court: | Florida Supreme Court |