This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1857 |
| Citation: | 11 Md. 322 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | The defendants offered into evidence that the principal obligor violated an act of 1836 by allowing his vessel to be navigated by slaves. The court ruling in the favor of the state. "As we have said, the State was not bound by the appeal bond as a stay of execution, but might have proceeded on the judgment. These appellants were differently situated, being sureties in an appeal bond, under which their principal was entitled to no benefit whatever, and from which it was impossible to have discharged them by compliance with its condition. The State was not concluded by the bond, and to hold them liable would be to enforce a contract where there was no mutuality. The hardship on them would be apparent, even if the State has allowed herself to be delayed by the appeal." |
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| Full name: | William Tucker, and others, vs. The State, use of Thomas H. Kneighton |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |