This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1816 |
| Citation: | 4 H. & J. 186 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Recovery for the difference of the purchase money for real estate sold at auction and the amount brought in resale. The will containing "The residue of my estate, whether houses, lands, store goods, negroes, or other property real, personal or mixed, my will and desire is may be sold most for my interest, at the discretion of my executors hereafter named, both as to time of sale and terms of payment, and the money arising therefrom, my will and desire is, may be put to interest". Holding that an auctioneer entering the parties' names in an auction book is sufficient in relation to the sale of real estate and the statute of frauds. |
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| Full name: | Singstack's Ex'rs. vs. Harding |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |