Jones v. . Hoggard
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Action to recover land tried at May Term, 1890, of Bertie Superior Court, before Armfield, J. The facts agreed upon were as follows: 1 Some years prior to the war, Stephen Ruffin and Sylvia Ruffin, a slave man and woman, cohabited together as man and wife, and the plaintiffs Martha and Kate Jones, Edmund and Stephen Pugh, and Lucy Watson, and the defendant Margaret Sanderlin, were born during the cohabitation; and after the birth of the youngest of these children the…
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Action to recover land tried at May Term, 1890, of Bertie Superior Court, before Armfield, J. The facts agreed upon were as follows: 1 Some years prior to the war, Stephen Ruffin and Sylvia Ruffin, a slave man and woman, cohabited together as man and wife, and the plaintiffs Martha and Kate Jones, Edmund and Stephen Pugh, and Lucy Watson, and the defendant Margaret Sanderlin, were born during the cohabitation; and after the birth of the youngest of these children the cohabitation ceased by the voluntary moving away of one of the parties and was never resumed. 2. After said separation, and…
1Opinion of the Court
plaintiffs’ appeal.
Clark, J.:
Alonzo Hoggard, Sr., and Sylvia came within the provisions of chapter 40, Acts 1866, as they were then cohabiting together as man and wife, and continued to do so after the passage of the act. Their children Samuel s. Hoggard and Alonzo Hoggard, Jr, were legitimate by virtue of that statute, and could inherit from their parents and from one another. State v. Harris, 63 N. C., 1; State v. Adams, 65 N. C., 537; State v. Whitford, 86 N. C., 636; Long v. Barnes, 87 N. C., 329.
When Alonzo Hoggard, Sr., died in 1873, his real estate descended to them, as did also the…
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