This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1866 |
| Citation: | 24 Md. 556 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | Silas Wright |
| Short Summary: | Dealing with the arrest of a black man for stealing certain bank and promissory notes but the peace officer who searched him of these notes failed to give them back to the party entitled to them. Concluding that a peace officer can be held liable for abuse of discretion. Holding that the officer did abuse discretion by refusing to deliver bank notes to a party he knew to be entitled to them. |
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| Full name: | Charles D. Hiss vs. State of Maryland |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |