WILLIAMS v. ASH


42 U.S. 1 (____)

1 How. 1

WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. JAMES ASH, DEFENDANT IN ERROR.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marbury, for the plaintiff in error.

Bradley, for the defendant.


Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is brought here by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for Washington county, and came before that court upon a petition for freedom.

It appeared on the trial, that the petitioner was the property of Mary Ann T. Greenfield, of Prince George's county, in the state of Maryland, who died in 1824, having first duly made...

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