This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1838 |
| Citation: | 10 G. & J. 65 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Dealing with a mortgage that devised "certain slaves, household furniture, and horses and cows" to the wife for her life. Further distributing the slaves amongst parties ordered to be sold for payments of his debt, excpet those devised to his wife. Holding that the rights in will of the beneficiaries without prejudicing the creditors. |
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| Full name: | Fayette Gibson, et al vs. James McCormick, Jr. |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |