Whitesides v. Allen
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 5 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM PAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT. CITED 8 Bush, 491, Allen v. Allen. Act of February 14, 1866. 1 Bush, 62, Estill v. Rogers. 7 Bush, 654, Ewing v. Bibb. 2 Bush, 278, Stewart v. Munchandler, &c. CITED Civil Code, sec. 670. Act of February 14, 1866, Myers’s Supplement, 785.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered the opinion oe the court.
The question made in this case arises upon the construction given by the court below to the second section of the act of February 14th, 1866, entitled “An act in relation to the marriage of negroes and mulattoes.” This act provides the manner in which negroes who had prior thereto lived and cohabited together, and were at the time living together"as man and wife, could legalize such marriages, and that their issue shall be held legitimate. The second section of the act provides that “ such persons shall appear before the clerk of the county court…
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