This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1871 |
| Citation: | 34 Tex. 516 |
| Jurisdiction: | Texas |
| People: | |
| Short Summary: | Labor of enslaved person hired with Confederate money in 1863. Under the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States, declaring that the Confederate debt shall not be paid, the enforced payment of Confederate money would be payment of that debt, and therefore void. |
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| Full name: | J. W. Smith V. M. S. Nelson And Another |
| Court: | Supreme Court of Texas |