This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1834 |
| Citation: | 6 G. & J. 481 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | Bill, Rhoda |
| Short Summary: | Dealing with a witness giving testimony on the occurrence of an event at a particular period of time. Action of replevin for a slave boy named Bill. Holding that testimony on cross examination not made to impeach the witness but to contradict facts in the Orphans' Cort accounts was inadmissible. This evidence could be used to impeach the witness but not as a fact for its own sake. |
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| Full name: | Christopher Goodhand vs. Vincent Benton, Jr. |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |