Hume v. Beale's
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia; the Case being thus : Benjamin Berry, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, owning a farm in that county, about, twenty miles from ■ Washington City, stocked with thirty slaves, and with proper animals and implements of husbandry, on which farm his son and the wife Eleanor of this son, with their three children, named respectively, Barbara, Amanda, and Rosalie, were living, conveyed it in March, 1826 (his said son…
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Error to the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia; the Case being thus : Benjamin Berry, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, owning a farm in that county, about, twenty miles from ■ Washington City, stocked with thirty slaves, and with proper animals and implements of husbandry, on which farm his son and the wife Eleanor of this son, with their three children, named respectively, Barbara, Amanda, and Rosalie, were living, conveyed it in March, 1826 (his said son having then recently died), to Robert Beale (a young lawyer of Washington City, a friend of the famjly, and who in 1829…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
delivered the opinion of the court. .
It is undeniable that the waste and misappropriation of property Tor which relief is sought, occurred prior to 1830.
This is apparent, not only by the testimony of the living witnesses, but by the papers in the suit commenced in the County Court of Prince George’s County, Maryland, where the property was situated, in behalf of the children, for whom Benjamin Berry, in his deed, made provision, by their uncle and next friend, for the same cause of action as that comprised in the present suit.
While it is not necessary for the purposes of this case to decide…
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