This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1861 |
| Citation: | 17 Md. 508 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | |
| Short Summary: | Ruling that a prosecutor who believes that a negro is being kidnapped is not acting maliciously given suspicious circumstances such as one party declaring they believed the act to be illegal. The question of malicious prosecution is legally different from whether or not the individual was actually free. |
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| Full name: | Wm. Cecil vs. Thaddeus Clarke and others |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |