Anderson v. Anderson

This suit involves the title to 100 acres of farm land located in the 5th District of Madison County, Tennessee, just north of the city limits of Jackson, Tennessee. The land was owned by one Sam Anderson, colored, at his death in 1924 intestate. Sam Anderson was born about 1841 in slavery on or near the very farm which is in litigation. The two determinative questions to be decided by this Court on this appeal are: (1) Whether Sam Anderson was legitimate or illegitimate, and (2) whether his three children, Robert, Sarah and Harriet Anderson, were legitimate or illegitimate.

Sam Anderson…