Case Name: Negro Gusty v. Edward Diggs
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1820-06
Citations: 2 Cranch 210
Docket Number: 
Parties: Negro Gusty v. Edward Diggs.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 210–211

Head Matter:
Negro Gusty v. Edward Diggs.
An apprentice bound in Maryland, and brought into this district, maybe discharged by the Court, who will order him to be bound again by two justices of the peace, to a new master.
A negro boy, about eight years old, was brought into Court by • habeas corpus, in the custody of Edward Diggs. It appeared that he had been brought into the city of Washington from Maryland, where he had been bound to Diggs to be taught the business of a farmer. Diggs hired him here to a chimney-sweeper.

Opinion:
The CouRT
discharged him from his indentures, and ordered him to be bound out again; and for that purpose directed him to be taken, in the custody of the marshal, before R. C. Weight-man and William Hewitt, Esquires, two of the justices of the peace for Washington County.