Court Opinion

ID: 8315633
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 20:00:55.24345+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:44:55.515696
License: Public Domain

The Court overruled the objection on the authority of the Bank of Columbia v. Patterson, 7 Cranch, 299.
The defendants’ counsel offered a free mulatto as a witness for the defendants.
Mr. Taylor, for the plaintiff, objected; and cited the Virginia laws, Rev. Co. 187, December 17,1792, c. 103, § 5, that “ no negro or mulatto shall be a witness, except in pleas of the commonwealth against negroes or mulattoes; or in civil pleas where negroes or mulattoes alone shall be parties.” The Court rejected the witness.

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