Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v Sanford
DRED SCOTT V SANFORD Dr. ... army surgeon, owned Dred Scott a black slave. In 1834 Dred Scott was taken from Missouri, a slave state, to Illinois, a free state because there was a military post at Rock Island. ... Emerson died and Scott sued Emerson’s widow for freedom for him and his family on the ground that residence in a free state followed by residence in a free territory ended his bondage. In a lower court in St. Louis he won, but the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the ruling.