This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1820 |
| Citation: | 5 H. & J. 64 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | |
| Short Summary: | Regarding a sheriff who commanded goods and property including a slave women and two slave girls before executing a sale for them for $210 even though the party's debts had been paid. Note that appellant's attorney is Roger Taney, future supreme court justice and author of the Dred Scott majority opinion. |
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| Full name: | Mark vs. Lawrence |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |