Lessee of Brewer v. Blougher
Supreme Court of the United States
AN action of ejectment was instituted by the plaintiff in, error, a citizen of Pennsylvania* in the Circuit Court of the United States for the. District of Maryland, for the recovery of a tract of land situated in Allegany county, in the state of Maryland, called ¿‘Part of Grassy Cabin.” The following were the facts of the case, as agreed upon by the parties to the suit.
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AN action of ejectment was instituted by the plaintiff in, error, a citizen of Pennsylvania* in the Circuit Court of the United States for the. District of Maryland, for the recovery of a tract of land situated in Allegany county, in the state of Maryland, called ¿‘Part of Grassy Cabin.” The following were the facts of the case, as agreed upon by the parties to the suit. John Sloan, late of Allegany county, was twice married ;• by his first wife he had but one child, namely, Mary Sloan; and by his second wife he had the following children, namely, William Sloan, John Sloan, Elizabeth Sloan,…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief Justice Taney
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case depends upon the construction of the act of Assembly of Maryland, passed at December session, 1825, ch. 156, entitled, “ An act relating to Illegitimate Children.” By this act of Assembly, “the illegitimate child or children of any female,.and the issue of any such child or children,” are declared to be incapable in law “to take and inherit both real and personal estate from their mother, or frim each other, or from the descendants of each other,'as the case may be, in like manner as if -born in lawful wedlock.”
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