Tobien v. Gentry

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

An old colored man named Hart Covington died intestate, domiciled in Warren county, in 1910, the owner of a tract of about fourteen acres of land, which he occupied as a homestead. He had been married three times. He was married the first' time before the breaking out of the Civil War, and, of course, was a slave. According to the custom of the times he belonged to a master named Ben Covington, a prominent citizen of Warren county, and Hart bears the family name óf his master. Before Covington purchased Hart he belonged to another master in the…