This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1830 |
| Citation: | 2 G. & J. 326 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | Sam |
| Short Summary: | Discussing testimony of a witness to prove responsibility for the hire of slaves as in a landlord-tenant dispute. Holding that the widow's testimony as to the terms by which she held the slaves was competent evidence. "if they believed it, that it was sufficient evidence in law, to authorise them to infer the relation of landlord and tenant, as existing between Watkins and the defendant, during the possession of Stockett, and that Stockett held the land and negroes, under the title of Watkins, and with his concurrence and permission; and that it is not necessary in law, for the plaintiffs, *339 in order to maintain this action, to prove an express contract with Stockett, at the time Stockett first took possession, nor any express reservation of a certain rent, nor the actual payment of any rent by Stockett to Watkins, or to the administrators of Watkins, since his death." |
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| Full name: | Stockett vs. Watkins' Admr's |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |