This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1851 |
| Citation: | 9 Gill 506 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Witness testimony that he did not beleive the testator to be a sane person. Will manumitting slaves and devising all his property, both real and personal, to these slaves but then selling the slaves to repay his debts. Holding that this evidence is an exception to the hearsay rule that "justice would seem to require that his declarations, (in this case almost simultaneous with the act), should be admitted to impeach these presumptions of law." |
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| Full name: | William Townshend and others, vs. Jeremiah Townshend and John B. Brooke, Exc’rs of John Townshend |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |