Court Opinion

ID: 7666700
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 00:47:02.86134+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:26:07.522348
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*PENDUBTON, President,
after stating the case, delivered the resolution of the Court as follows:
In Turner v. Turner, 1 Wash. 139, the plaintiff claimed under a parol gift, and the Court below admitted evidence of such gift, which this Court adjudged could not be admitted under the act of 1758, [c. 5, 7 Stat. Larg. 237.]
Although, under that act, the parol gift did not pass the property in the slave Nan to Russell; yet, this possession of more than five years in Armstead’s life-time, barred the title of the latter, and prevented his power of disposition by his will, more especially in this case of a bona fide purchaser from the possessor.
The supersedeas is, therefore, unanimously denied. _