Wilson v. Barnet
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore City court. This was a petition for freedom, filed on the 12th' October, 1836, by the appellee, against the appellant.- The freedom being denied, at the trial of that issue, the following excep- , tion was taken.. • The petitioner offered in evidence, that she had been living and acting in the City of Baltimore, as a free woman, from the 27th July, 1830, until she was arrested as a slave by the defendant on the 11th October, 1836, and confined in…
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Appeal from Baltimore City court. This was a petition for freedom, filed on the 12th' October, 1836, by the appellee, against the appellant.- The freedom being denied, at the trial of that issue, the following excep- , tion was taken.. • The petitioner offered in evidence, that she had been living and acting in the City of Baltimore, as a free woman, from the 27th July, 1830, until she was arrested as a slave by the defendant on the 11th October, 1836, and confined in Baltimore county jail as a runaway by his order. The defendant, the appellant,'then offered in evidence, that the petitioner…
1Opinion of the CourtAhcheR, Judge
The court below erred in expressing to the jury the opinion, that if they believed the petitioner had been acting as a free *165woman from the time of the appraisement with the knowledge and consent of the administrator, that then such facts amount to prima facie evidence that the debts of the testatrix have been paid out of other portions of the estate first appropriated by the will.
The principles of law involved in the prayer it is unnecessary to discuss, because we do not perceive any evidence in the record of the consent of the administrator, that the petitioner should act as a free woman, or…
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