Tongue v. Crissy
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel county. Petition for freedom by the appellees, who claimed their freedom under the following clause of the will of John Collinson, executed on the 24th of September 1836. “Item.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel county. Petition for freedom by the appellees, who claimed their freedom under the following clause of the will of John Collinson, executed on the 24th of September 1836. “Item. I will and devise that all my negroes, of which I shall die possessed, shall be free from the servitude of all persons whatever, from and after my decease: provided that they, my said negroes, shall go to Liberia, or some one or other of the American settlements on the coast of Africa. But should they refuse to go to either of the settlements in Africa aforesaid, then and…
1Opinion of the CourtLe Grand, C. J.
The correctness of the ruling of the Circuit Court in this case, depends upon the interpretation which is to be given to the act of 1831, chapter 281. The agreement of facts set out in the record, shows that two of the petitioners, Rhody and Crissy, were the slaves of John Collinson at the time of his death,- and that his ether personal estate was more than *464sufficient to pay his debts. It is also admitted that these petitioners were manumitted by his last will, and that the other petitioners were born subsequently to his death.
The defence set up to the claim for freedom is, that at the time…
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