This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1852 |
| Citation: | 3 Md. 134 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Devise of a farm and slaves to the executor's daughter and son and also manumitted one servant. There was a codicil prepared shprtly after the testatrix's death, giving additionals bequests of both personal and real property. The court ruled that real estate could not pass under this codicil as it was incomplete on its faced and lacked evidence of the testatrix's intent. Using personal attributes of the testatrix such that she had a propensity to form havits and that she was well-knoweldged of business in order to prove that the codicil was not intended to be complete. |
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| Full name: | John R. Plater, Exc'r of Charlotte L. Edmondson, vs. Peregrine Groome, Trustee of H. L. Edmondson |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |