Denton's Guardians v. Denton's Executors
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Calvert county. Assumpsit, brought on the 8th of October 1857, by the appellants against the appellees, to recover the hire of certain negro slaves, alleged to be the property of the plaintiffs’ ward. Pleas, non-assumpsit and set-off. Exception.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Calvert county. Assumpsit, brought on the 8th of October 1857, by the appellants against the appellees, to recover the hire of certain negro slaves, alleged to be the property of the plaintiffs’ ward. Pleas, non-assumpsit and set-off. Exception. The plaintiffs proved that in August 1857, James D. Denton, the defendants’ testator, intermarried with Charlotte A. Wood; that Charlotte died in September 1846, leaving an only child, the ward of the plaintiffs, who are admitted to be her guardians, and that James D. Denton died . in August 1856, leaving the…
1Opinion of the CourtBartol, J.
This action was instituted by the appellants, to recover hire for certain negro slaves, alleged to be the property of Delia Denton, and to have been used and employed by the defendants’ testator, for his own benefit, from the year 1846 to the year 1856. The proof shows that the slaves in question belonged, before her marriage, to Charlotte A. Denton, the wife of the defendants’ testator, and mother of Delia Denton, the ward of the plaintiffs, and were conveyed by the ante-nuptial deed or settlement, executed by James D. Denton and wife, on the 13th day of July 1838, (for which see ante 404.)…
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