Belt v. Marriott
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Anne Arundel county court. This was an action of replevin brought by the appellant, as administrator of Walter Clarke, for a negro boy named Henderson. The pleas were non cepit, property in the defendant, and property in a stranger. The facts of the case and the exceptions, are all fully stated in the opinion. The verdict and judgment was for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtFrick, J.
On the 12th of January, 1820, William Marriott, the appellee’s intestate, being the owner of a negro woman named Jemima, by bi^I of sale duly executed and recorded, transferred and delivered the said negro woman to Walter /S. Clarke, to serve for the term of ten years from the date, and the children of saiJemima, if boys, born during the said term, to serve until the age of thirty years. The boy in question in this suit, was born in 1833, and during the said period of the mother’s servitude.
Walter Clarke died in the year 1826.
The appellees offered in proof in the court below, that about…
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