This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1859 |
| Citation: | 14 Md. 507 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Concluding that an unfinished deed can be used as nothing except to prove the testator's inchoate testimony. "It is well settled that an instrument, like the present, is to be classed among unfinished testaments, on account of the attestation clause without witnesses, even where the party has signed it; that the presumption of law is against such papers; and, though a slight presumption, must be rebutted by extrinsic circumstances, in order to its being pronounced for." |
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| Full name: | Abraham Barnes vs. A. K. Syester, Ex'r of Virginia W. Mason |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |