Marriott v. Badger
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Howard county. This was a petition for freedom., by the appellee against the appellant. The facts of the case necessary to the understanding of the opinion of this court are fully stated therein. Four exceptions were taken in the course of the trial, but all of them were abandoned except the second, which was taken by the defendant to the granting, by the court below, (Brewer, J.,) of the instruction set out in the opinion of this court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Howard county. This was a petition for freedom., by the appellee against the appellant. The facts of the case necessary to the understanding of the opinion of this court are fully stated therein. Four exceptions were taken in the course of the trial, but all of them were abandoned except the second, which was taken by the defendant to the granting, by the court below, (Brewer, J.,) of the instruction set out in the opinion of this court. The verdict and judgment being in favor of the petitioner, the defendant appealed. argued the following points: 1st.…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
The first, third and fourth bills of exceptions having been abandoned, we need not examine them, and our attention will be confined to the second.
The prayer granted, and which is now the matter in controversy, is, “that if the jury find from the evidence that Hess, the mother of the petitioner, was the slave of John Hammond, and was bequeathed as such by the will of said John Hammond to his son Wm. Hammond, and after the death of said Wm. Hammond was received by William H. Marriott, (his mother Sarah Marriott being dead,) as a part of her share of the estate of said John Hammond, so…
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