Supreme Court of North Carolina June 5, 1850 (State Ex Rel. Fanshaw v. Jones)

Ruffin, C. J.

The directions were certainly right, if the jury believed the foundling to be the child of a free mother. But on the supposition, that her mother was a slave, the directions were clearly wrong, at least, as to the money claimed by the relator ; for, whether the donee

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of the money was a slave of the testator, or of Willis, or of another person, she was equally incapable of