This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1851 |
| Citation: | 1 Md. 344 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Involving a will where the testatrix manumitted her slaves after death. The will including the language "remainder of my estate" to be devised between her four children. Holding that when there is language elsewhere describing real estate as such, then this language refers to personal property. |
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| Full name: | Symms C. H. McChesney against Daniel C. Bruce and others |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |