Reeves v. Matthews
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover, in Crawford Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers, September Term, 1854. This was an action for negroes, brought, by the administrator of William Reeves, against the defendant in error, who claimed them under the will of William Cleveland.
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Trover, in Crawford Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers, September Term, 1854. This was an action for negroes, brought, by the administrator of William Reeves, against the defendant in error, who claimed them under the will of William Cleveland. The mother of the negroes had formerly been the property of Cleveland, whose daughter William Reeves married, but had been in the possession of Reeves from 1827 until his death in 1850. William Cleveland, by a will dated in 1835 and proven in 1844, had bequeathed these negroes, after the death of William Reeves, to the children of his daughter,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Starnes, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The point first made in this case, viz: that upon the - admissibility of James Reeves’ testimony, is controlled by the agreement entered into between the parties, (which is set forth in the statement of facts accompanying this case,) to the effect that such evidence was to be admitted on the trial of one case •as would be admissible in either of them — a stipulation' which *452seems to have been adopted for the exclusive purpose of obviating just such an objection as that made here.
[2.] The Court was right in refusing to charge, that if William…
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