Fenwick v. Chapman
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the circuit court of the United States, for the county of Washington in the District of Columbia. The defendants in error instituted a suit in the circuit court to recover their freedom, alleging that they were entitled to it under the last will and testament of their late mistress, Frances Edelin deceased, in the state of Maryland.
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IN error to the circuit court of the United States, for the county of Washington in the District of Columbia. The defendants in error instituted a suit in the circuit court to recover their freedom, alleging that they were entitled to it under the last will and testament of their late mistress, Frances Edelin deceased, in the state of Maryland. The plaintiff in error claimed the petitioners as his slaves, having purchased them of the sole acting executor of the deceased, at a sale made by the order and authority of the orphan’s court of Prince George’s county, in Maryland; and, by the consent…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Watne
The object of this writ of error is to reverse a judgment of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, for alleged error in having adjudged the defendants in. error (coloured persons) to be free and discharged of and from the service of the plaintiff in error.
The judgment of the court was rendered upon á statement of facts entered into at the trial term of the cause, signed by the counsel of the parties.
It is necessary, however, to set out the facts in the case more in detail, as they appear by the record of the proceedings in the cause.
Eliza Chapman and Robert Chapman, infants and…
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