This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1864 |
| Citation: | 22 Md. 239 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | The plaintiff offering an executed will as evidence for title. The defendant arguing that the plaintiff's lessor "are not of pure white blood, but mixed or part of African or negro blood." Furthermore claiming that these lessors were illegitimate childre and were born in St. Bartholomew and hence not citizens of the United States and the land was liable to escheat. Maintaining the ejectment and ruling, in light of an act of 1802, that the lessors are not citizens. The court ruled that aliens cannot hold lands and since the lessors were not the legitimate descendants of Guyer, they could not maintain citizenship through their father. |
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| Full name: | Benjamin Van Crossen Guyer and James Guyer's Lessee vs. George Smith and Israel Thompson |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |