Morgan v. Jones
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover, from Sumter. Tried before Judge Kiddoo, September Term, 1857. This was an action of trover, brought by Francis M. Jones and wife, Julia A. Jones, (formerly Morgan,) against Charles W. Morgan, the father of Mrs. Jones, for the recovery of the one-fifth of two negro women, Binah and Katey, and their increase.
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Trover, from Sumter. Tried before Judge Kiddoo, September Term, 1857. This was an action of trover, brought by Francis M. Jones and wife, Julia A. Jones, (formerly Morgan,) against Charles W. Morgan, the father of Mrs. Jones, for the recovery of the one-fifth of two negro women, Binah and Katey, and their increase. On the trial, it appeared from the evidence, that plaintiffs were married about 1848, at which time Mrs. Jones was a minor, about nineteen years old; that her mother, Charlotte Morgan, wife of defendant, and formerly Charlotte Gibbons, died in 1841; that Jones, the plaintiff,…
1Opinion of the CourtMcDonald, J.
By the Court delivering the opinion.
[1.] The first error complained of in the record is the rejection of the letters of administration granted to the plaintiff in error, on the estate of his deceased wife. They were offered in support of his title to the property sued for. Up to the time of his tendering them in 'evidence, he had established nothing more than a life estate in his wife, and that having terminated at her death, the letters were not evidence, and were properly rejected by the Court.
[2.] We think that the proof proposed to be made by the plaintiff in error was sufficient to lay a…
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