This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1843 |
| Citation: | 1 Gill 425 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | Gusty |
| Short Summary: | Interpreting a 1798 law giving the orphan's court the assumption of debt after 15 years for property belonging specifically to the deceased while alive. Disputing a slave named Gusty who belonged to the deceased's wife until her death 14 years later. Holding that the Orphan's Court does not have the responsibility for valuing this property but only to deliver what property is still to be paid in debt. |
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| Full name: | George Gardner and John Hughes, executors of Elizabeth Reeves, vs. Joseph E. Simmes, a. d. b. n. of Thomas C. Reeves |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |