Maddox v. Negroes Price
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s county. Petition for freedom, filed on the 17th of June 1859, by the appellees against the appellant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s county. Petition for freedom, filed on the 17th of June 1859, by the appellees against the appellant. The petitioners, twelve in number, claimed their freedom under the will of Eleanor W. Turner, executed on the 18th of November 1837, and admitted to probate on the 7th of August 1838. The clauses of the will under which the petitioners claim, as well as the agreement of facts on which the case was tried, are fully stated in the opinion of this court. Exception. The petitioners, upon all the evidence in the cause, asked two instructions to the jury,…
1Opinion of the CourtBartol, J.
The appellees claim their freedom under the folllowing clause of the will of Mrs. Turner:
“Item. — I also give and bequeath to my nephew, James T. N. Maddox, the residue of my negroes in trust, which negroes he shall hire out from year to year, until my just debts are paid as well as certáin legacies discharged and paid, as hereinafter made by me; ,then he, the said J. T. N. Maddox, may, if he wish to do so, take such of my negroes as are willing to go to the State of Kentucky, or elsewhere, where they shall be manumitted; it being my wish and intention, to manumit all my negroes except…
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