This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1868 |
| Citation: | 12 Fla. 472 |
| Jurisdiction: | Supreme Court of FL |
| People: | |
| Short Summary: | Defndendant argues that the woman was hired after the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and therefore worked as a freed woman and not as a slave. The Court disagrees stating that the Emancipation Proclomation was strictly a measure of war and had no legal effect on slave owners not within the lines of military occupation. |
| Law type: | Recovery for Services of a Slave After Abolition |
| Full name: | Henry Slaback, Appellant, vs. Leoma L. Cushman, Appellee |
| Court: | Florida Supreme Court |