Strader v. Graham

Strader v. Graham, 51 U.S. (10 How.) 82 (1851), was a US Supreme Court decision that held that the status of three slaves who went from Kentucky to Indiana and Ohio depended on Kentucky law, rather than Ohio law.^[1] The original plaintiff was Christopher Graham, whose three slaves had traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio, aboard a steamboat owned by Jacob Strader and James Gorman and piloted by John Armstrong. The slaves later escaped to Canada. The US Supreme Court recognized the authority of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 over its applicable territories in Strader v. Graham but did not extend the Northwest Ordinance to cover the states that were later admitted to the Union.^[2]

Strader v. Graham
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December, 1850
Full case name	Jacob Strader, James Gorman, and John Armstrong, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Christopher Graham
Citations	51 U.S. 82 (more) 10 How. 82; 13 L. Ed. 337
Court membership
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney Associate Justices John McLean · James M. Wayne John Catron · John McKinley Peter V. Daniel · Samuel Nelson Levi Woodbury · Robert C. Grier
Case opinions
Majority	Taney, joined by Wayne, McKinley, Daniel, Nelson, Woodbury, Grier
Concurrence	McLean
Concurrence	Catron
Laws applied
Northwest Ordinance of 1787

See also

• American slave court cases
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 51