Tyler Sims states that his son, Antony, a free person of color, was bound as a chimney sweep apprentice to Newman B. Wilkinson. The petitioner asserts that the indenture is illegal on the grounds that it was never recorded under the law. Sims further argues that had the indenture been recorded, it would have been rendered null and void because chimney sweeps are not "within the meaning of the statute_ it being evident that each year which is added to the apprentice life renders him less competent to preform the duties of a chimney sweep, he finds himself without any trade or means of making an honorable living." Sims states that Wilkinson sold Antony to one Underwood, "who treated the said apprentice with the greatest and most unjustifiable severity." Underwood returned Antony to Wilkinson, who then moved him to Maryland, where he now remains. Sims seeks a writ of habeas corpus for his son Antony.
Result: Granted.
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