Jones v. Morgan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover, in Sumter Superior Court. Tried before Judge Brown, February.Term, 1858. This was an action of trover, brought by Francis M. Jones and his wife, Julia A. Jones, (formerly Julia A. Morgan, daughter of Charlotte Morgan, deceased, who was the wife of the defendant in error,) for the recovery of one-fifth part of two negro slaves, Caty and Binah, and their offspring, nine in number.
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Trover, in Sumter Superior Court. Tried before Judge Brown, February.Term, 1858. This was an action of trover, brought by Francis M. Jones and his wife, Julia A. Jones, (formerly Julia A. Morgan, daughter of Charlotte Morgan, deceased, who was the wife of the defendant in error,) for the recovery of one-fifth part of two negro slaves, Caty and Binah, and their offspring, nine in number. On the trial, it appeared in evidence that Mrs. Charlotte Morgan died in 1840,- leaving five children; and that Julia.A. Jones, one of the plaintiffs, was one of the children, and that she intermarried with…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The proof of the statements made by Mrs. Morgan, relative to the property, was unquestionably admissible. They *520were made in the presence of the defendant, and assented to, not tacitly, hut expressly, by him. They were, therefore, his admissions against his own title, during the time that he was in possession.
So, also, his admissions were provable. Whether his admissions of holding the property for the period of the Statute limitation term, as the property of the plaintiff and the other children of Charlotte Morgan, gives to the plaintiffs a…
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