Blackburn v. Crawfords
Supreme Court of the United States
Dr. Crawford, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, died intestate, in December, 1859, tbe proprietor of large landed estates there; Greenwood Park, Waring’s Grove, Federal Hill, Westphalia, Banleigh, &e. He left no wife, nor child, nor brother nor sister surviving him. Claimants to such estates, however, were not long wanting.
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Dr. Crawford, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, died intestate, in December, 1859, tbe proprietor of large landed estates there; Greenwood Park, Waring’s Grove, Federal Hill, Westphalia, Banleigh, &e. He left no wife, nor child, nor brother nor sister surviving him. Claimants to such estates, however, were not long wanting. On the one hand were relatives of the name of Blackburn, confessedly his cousins-german; on the other, persons hearing his own respectable Scottish name of Crawford: George Thomas Crawford, Mary Elizabeth Crawford, Sarah Jane Crawford, and Anna Victoria Crawford, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
We will consider the exceptions, so far as we deem necessary — both as respects the testimony and the instructions— in the order in which they are presented by the record; [the order which precedes. Hep.']
The first exception relates to the admission of evidence as to what Sarah Evans had said in regard to the marriage of her sister, Elizabeth Taylor, with Mr. Crawford.* Was the testimony rightly admitted ?
Greenleaf says:† “ It is now settled that the law resorts to hearsay evidence in cases of pedigree, upon the ground of the interest of the declarants in the person from whom the descent is…
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