This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1850 |
| Citation: | 9 Gill 7 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | Wood, Henry |
| Short Summary: | "that if the defendant seized upon these slaves and removed them with the intention of converting them to his own use, he was in legal contemplation, guilty of a conversion, though in what he did, he may have acted in good faith, and under the mistaken belief that Briscoe was authorised to sell them." |
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| Full name: | William Harker, B. M. Campbell and John Campbell, vs. John E. Dement |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |