Evans v. Young

The question for determination here is: Do the collateral heirs of a deceased Negro born of slave parents in.a foréign State take real estate left by him in preference to the devisees of his wife 1 The Chancellor and the Court of Appeals held that these collateral heirs did inherit from the child of this slave marriage of a foreign State. The matter has been ably briefed and argued and we now have the question for determination.

Cornelius Walker, a Negro, was born in Mississippi in 1864. At the time of his birth slavery had not been abolished in the State. He was the only child of Jeff and…