Anderson v. Garrett
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court. Rebecca Garret and her five children, by B. C. Presslman, their next friend, filed their petition for freedom in Baltimore county court, on the 8th of March, 1849, alleging that they were in the custody of Thomas Anderson, of Howard district, having been forcibly taken from the jurisdiction of said court by J. C. Anderson, as agent of said Thomas, and that they are entitled to their freedom, which they pray may be inquired of by said…
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Appeal from Baltimore county court. Rebecca Garret and her five children, by B. C. Presslman, their next friend, filed their petition for freedom in Baltimore county court, on the 8th of March, 1849, alleging that they were in the custody of Thomas Anderson, of Howard district, having been forcibly taken from the jurisdiction of said court by J. C. Anderson, as agent of said Thomas, and that they are entitled to their freedom, which they pray may be inquired of by said court. The defendant, Thomas Anderson,, appeared and pleaded in abatement to the jurisdiction of the court, averring that the…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, C. J.
The first question presented for review in this court, by the record before it, is, did Baltimore county court err in overruling the plea in abatement to its jurisdiction, filed by the appellant, to the appellees’ petition for freedom? The plea alleges that each and every of (he petitioners did, at the time of filing said petition, and long before, reside, and have ever since resided, under the direction of the said Thomas Anderson, their master and owner, out of the jurisdiction of Baltimore county court, and in Howard district of Anne Arundel county. By the law of Maryland, as far as…
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