This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1827 |
| Citation: | 7 Cow. 218 |
| Jurisdiction: | SC of New York |
| People: | Christian Holland |
| Law type: | Failure to obtain certificate of "slave's ability to maintain himself" pursuant to statute prior to freeing slave |
| Full name: | Warren and Slingerland, Overseers of the Poor of the town of Bethelem, against Brooks |
| Court: | New York Supreme Court |