Williams v. Williams

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

Nelson Williams owned at his death 40 acres of land, worth less than a thousand dollars, on which he resided. His widow, Ann Williams, survived him, also a son,, Sidney, who died in 1908, unmarried and without issue. Nelson Williams was a slave before slavery was abolished. Emily Curry also was a slave, the property of Elias Curry, before slavery was abolished. He died in 1871, but he kept a record of the births and deaths of his children and his slaves. In that record it appears that there were born to Emily Curry the following children:…