This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1855 |
| Citation: | 8 Md. 301 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Mortgage executed for articles in the store and "whatever may be at any time therein" in Worley's business. After the mortgage was due and unpaid, the mortgagee seized the stock. Using an analogy that since the court held in other cases that the offspring of a female slave could be bound to martgagee as condidtion of the morgage. Distinguishing this analogy from the present case as a slave mother should determine the fate of the child. |
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| Full name: | William Hamilton and A. Robinson, vs. Chas. Rogers |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |