This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1844 |
| Citation: | 2 Gill 134 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Dealing with a sheriff who in good faith levied a large number of slaves. Holding that years of no creidtors making demand of payment and no fraud is evidence that the court was wrong in executing a levy. Holding that the slaves involved were surplus of the distribution of the debt anyways. |
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| Full name: | David Ridenour, et al., vs. Thomas Keller, Sheriff of Washington County |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |