Roberts v. Stoner
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Franklin Circuit Court. This was a proceeding instituted in the Circuit Court of Eranklin county by Erancis G. Roberts, James R. Wilson and Mary Jane Wilson, his wife, against Isaac Stoner, John Q. Dickenson, Alexander Chambers and A. W. Jeffries.
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Error to Franklin Circuit Court. This was a proceeding instituted in the Circuit Court of Eranklin county by Erancis G. Roberts, James R. Wilson and Mary Jane Wilson, his wife, against Isaac Stoner, John Q. Dickenson, Alexander Chambers and A. W. Jeffries. The petition stated that John A. Roberts, being possessed of certain slaves, died intestate on the first of May, 1835, leaving a widow, Ann J. Roberts, since married to the defendant, Stoner, and two children, the plaintiffs, Erancis G. Roberts and Mary Jane Wilson ; that the said Ann J. was entitled to one third of the said slaves during…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
1. The thirty-third section of the act concerning the revised statutes, approved 21st March, 1835, enacts that all other acts of a public, permanent and general nature, in force at the commencement of the present session of the general assembly, and not herein required to be continued in force, shall be repealed on the first day of December next, except as in the next section specified. The act concerning dower being one of the “ other acts” within the meaning of this section, and not being one of the acts excepted in the following section, was repealed on the first of December, 1835, and…
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