This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1876 |
| Citation: | 43 Md. 490 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | Joe |
| Short Summary: | "If the jury shall believe from the evidence in the cause, that the plaintiff raised his hand with intent to strike the defendant, or abused and intermeddled with the defendant, whilst as a police officer of Baltimore city, he was ordering the negro boy Joe, to remove his horses and wagon off the footway of Bartlett street." Holding that immunity does not apply to the officer in this matter. |
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| Full name: | Michael Roddy vs. Owen Finnegan |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |