In 1847, Hugh Garland and his family made move Petersburg, Virginia, to St. Louis. At St. Louis he made a move to practicing real estate law. He made two trips at United States Supreme Court to argue cases where real estate law interacted with historical rights. And about six others cases where Garland was arguing before the Missouri Supreme Court. Garland was a businessman (not a lawyer) on Petersburg, but he was going to practicing law in St. Louis.
Garland’s was engaging proslavery thought, obviously — in a number of ways, a lawyer for Scott v. Emerson, engaging in political debates, and the slavery treatise — but he was doing real estate litigation as well, particularly history of the grants from years ago.