Morris v. Trotter

By. stipulation of record it appears that the deceased, E. T. Banks, and Alice Banks were husband and wife; that they were negroes, and had lived in Alabama, whence they removed to Iowa about 1882; that they had no children; that Mrs. Banks died in 1916, and E. T. Banks in 1925, intestate and without issué, leaving a homestead property.

The plaintiff and appellant testified, in substance, that she remembered living in Alabama with Mr. and Mrs. Banks; that they were the only parents she ever knew; that they called her daughter, and she called them father and mother, and was known as Mary Banks;…