About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

Negro John Davis et al. v. Wood U.S. 6 (1816)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0007 and id is 1 raw text is: CASES IN THE SUPREMFe COURT 1816. The circuit court appears to have considered the Davis case as coming. within the proviso of the 2d section. V. If in this opinion that court were even to be thought mistaken, the error does not injure the petitioner, and is, therefore, no cause foi reversal. The court is unanimously of opinion, that the judgment ought to be affirmed. Judgment affirmed. (LOCAL LAW.j .Negro JOHN DAVIS et at. v. WooD. Evidence by hearsay and general reputation is admissible only a3 to pedigree, but not'to establish the freedom of the petitioner's ances- tor, and thence to deduce his or her own. Verdicts' are evidence between parties and privies only; and a record proving the ancestor's freedom to have been established in a suit against another party by whom the petitioner was sold to the present defendint, is inadmisgible evidence to prove the petitioner's freedom THis case was similar to the preceding, in which the petitioners excepted to the opinion of the court below: 1st. That they had offered to prove, by com- petent witnesses, that they -(the witfiesses) bad heard old persons, now dead, declare, that a cer- tain Mary Davis, now dead, was a white woman, born ,in England, and such was the general report in the neighbourhood where she lived; and also offer- ed the same kind of testimony to prove that Susan

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most