Haney v. Waddle
3 H&J 557 (1815)
This was a petition for freedom. At the trial the petitioner, (now appellee,) produced a witness,
who proved that John Haney, the brother of the defendant, (now appellant,) wrote a letter to
him from St. Mary's county in this state, where he resided, and sent it by the petitioner, who
was then living in Virginia, where he was born and raised, and by whom it was delivered to the
witness in the city of Baltimore, where the witness resided, sometime in the month of February
1810, and shortly after the said letter was written. The letter contained a request that the witness
would keep the petitioner until he, John Haney, or his brother Samuel Haney, should arrive in
Baltimore; and it also stated, that the petitioner was the property of his said brother, who was
under age, and that he was the guardian of his said brother. That accordingly the witness did
keep the petitioner in his service from that time for about two months and an half, when the
defendant arrived in Baltimore from St. Mary's county, where he was bound in 1803 by his
father, for seven years, to learn the business of a pilot, and where he then lived.
Appellate Court Records:
COURT OF APPEALS (Docket) Haney v. Waddle, 1815, May Term, no. 62 [MSA S414-6, 1/66/14/24].
COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western Shore) Haney v. Waddle, 1815, May Term, no. 62 [MSA S382-74, 1/62/10/22].
Appellate Judges: Jeremiah Townley Chase; John Johnson John Buchanan; Richard Tilghman Earle; William Bond Martin.
Appellate Attorneys: William H. Winder (appellant); Walter Dorsey (appellee)
Trial Court Judges: Joseph Hopper Nicholson; Zebulon Hollingsworth; Thomas Jones
Trial Court Attorneys: Walter Dorsey (Waddle); William H. Winder (Haney); Theodorick Bland (Haney)
See also msa sc5339-270-7. |
