Jones v. . Reddick
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN, tried at Spring Term, 1878, of Gates Superior Court, before Fúrches, J. ' This was an action for ’ the recovery of land, and the-plaintiffs’ right of recovery' turns upon the question,— whether they are the “ lawful children ” of Alfred E. J ones, the son of Frederick Jones, the testator.
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Civil ActioN, tried at Spring Term, 1878, of Gates Superior Court, before Fúrches, J. ' This was an action for ’ the recovery of land, and the-plaintiffs’ right of recovery' turns upon the question,— whether they are the “ lawful children ” of Alfred E. J ones, the son of Frederick Jones, the testator. Upon the trial of this issue before the jury, one E.-T. Jones testified that-he was a brother hf-Alfred E. Juñes, and remembered that his brother-left this State in 1850* removed first to Florida,. and thence to Georgia ; that he visited him in Savannah,. Georgia, during the war, and he was…
1Opinion of the CourtByNUM, J.
(After stating the case as-above.) Xo actual .marriage was shown, nor was it shown or offered to be shown, what would constitute a valid marriage by the laws of Georgia, where the marriage was alleged to have been celebrated. But in all Christian States, especially in the States of the American Union, which, although in some respects foreign to each other, have a common, origin, and in other respects, a constitutional community of rights and interests, it is presumed that the .common law j>revails, and that the same proofs which are sufficient to establish the fact of marriage in one State,…
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