This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1853 |
| Citation: | 5 Md. 85 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | Isaac, Sophia, Margaret |
| Short Summary: | Testatrix directing executors to manumit slaves at their discretion when they deemed expedient and proper. The executors never manumitted them. Concluding that if a slave is free since their mother was manumitted at the time of their birth and that it was surely the intention of the testatrix to manumit them |
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| Full name: | Thomas and Sally Pearce, Negroes, vs. John Van Lear, Jr. |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |