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JONES v. JONES

No. 339.

234 U.S. 615 (1914)

34 S.Ct. 937

58 L.Ed. 1500

JONES v. JONES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 22, 1914.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.H. Harrelson, with whom Mr. W.P. Metcalf was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. B.F. Booth for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE LURTON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a question of collateral descent arising under the Tennessee statutes.

One John Jones, a colored freedman, died in 1889, the owner of a tract of eighty-seven acres of land lying in Shelby County, Tennessee, upon which he and his wife had lived for many years. He died intestate and without issue. The title to the land was claimed by his widow, the defendant...

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