Jones v. Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
error to the supreme court of the state of TENNESSEE. The facts, which involve the construction and constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of certain provisions of the laws of Tennessee in regard to the descent of real property, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lurton
This is a question of collateral descent arising under the Tennessee statutes.
One John Jones, a colored freedman, died in 1889, the owner of a tract of eighty-seven acres of land lying in Shelby County, Tennessee, upon which he and his wife had lived for many years. He died intestate and without issue. The title to the land was claimed by his widow, the defendant in error, Marguerite Jones, who has since the death of John Jones inter-married with the other defendant in error, Albert Jones. Her claim was rested upon § 4165, Shannon’s Compilation of Tennessee laws, which provides that if one…
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