Knox v. Moore
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Norton, J., Abbeville, June, 1893. Action by Johu N. Knox, as administrator of Thornton Moore, deceased, against Viney Moore, Bindy Moore, and others. On July 12, the Circuit Judge filed his decree.
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Before Norton, J., Abbeville, June, 1893. Action by Johu N. Knox, as administrator of Thornton Moore, deceased, against Viney Moore, Bindy Moore, and others. On July 12, the Circuit Judge filed his decree. On July 20, he filed the following supplemental decree: “This was an appeal from the decree of the Probate Court of Abbeville County, heard by me at June Term, 1893. In my decree therein, dated July 7, 1893, and filed with the clerk of court, there appears a clerical error that may lead to a misconstruction of what I intended to determine. It should be corrected. I adjudged in said decree…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
In the year 1848, Thornton Moore and Rindy Moore, while both were slaves, lived together as husband and wife. Children were the issue of that relation. On the ground of alleged infidelity, Thornton Moore refused to live with the said Rindy Moore some time about the year 1857, and in the year 1863 he married, according to the manner of slaves, the defendant, Yiney Moore, with whom he lived until the passage by the legislature of this State of the act to establish and regulate the domestic relations of persons of color, and to amend the…
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