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EVANS v. YOUNG

299 S.W.2d 218 (1957)

Edward EVANS v. Amanda YOUNG et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

February 8, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. H. Fisher, Memphis, for petitioner.

Donelson & Adams, and Ernest Williams, III, Guardian Ad Litem, Memphis, for respondents.

BURNETT, Justice.

The question for determination here is: Do the collateral heirs of a deceased Negro born of slave parents in a foreign State take real estate left by him in preference to the devisees of his wife? The Chancellor and the Court of Appeals held that these collateral heirs did inherit from the child of this slave marriage of a foreign State. The matter has been ably briefed and argued and we now have the question...

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