This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1870 |
| Citation: | 32 Md. 74 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Devising in will 160 acres in trust with nine slaves. Holding that the trust was not executed for the daughter after her marriage and that her heirs may only take an equitable life estate. The slaves devised in will were neither argued upon nor abolition mentioned. |
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| Full name: | C. Columbus Griffith vs. Samuel W. Plummer and Mary E., his Wife, and Henry A. Griffith |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |