This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1876 |
| Citation: | 45 Md. 144 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | Henrietta, Andrew, Frances, Henry |
| Short Summary: | Case is marked as overturned. Dealing with the rights of an estate between a party claiming to be the lawful child and a party claiming to be a lawful widow. Andrew Jones, the deceased, was a slave at the time of his marriage to Frances Moore, the defendant. The Court found that there was an issue with Andrew's marital status and his relation with the plaintiff's mother; that the plaintiff alleges Andrew was married to his mother by means of cohabitation and reputation even though Andrew was lawfully married to another woman. Evidence of cohabitation and reputation is enoguh to establish marriage on its own but not to defeat a claim of an already existing marriage. Excluding evidene regarding the plaintiff's resemblance of the testator because of the evidence's lack of reliability and tendency to mislead the jury. |
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| Full name: | David Jones, Frances Jones and others vs. Henry Jones |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |