NEGRO JOHN DAVIS ET AL.
v.
WOOD

U.S. | 1816-02-01
1 Wheat. 6 Supreme Court of the United States (1816) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 4 L. Ed. 22 · 1816 U.S. LEXIS 303 · SCDB 1816-002
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Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,

Marshall, Ch. J.,

delivered, the opinion of the court, and stated, that, as. tp the first exception, the court had revised its opinion in the case of Mima Queen and child v. Hepburn, and confirmed it. As to the second exception, the record Was not between the same parties. The rule is, that Verdicts are evidence between parties and privies. The court does not feel inclined to enlargte the exceptions to this general rule,' and, therefore, the judgment of the court below is affirmed.

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    …eel safe in any property, a claim to which might be supported by proof so easily obtained. . . . This court is not inclined to extend the exceptions further than they have already been carried.” This decision was adhered to in Davis v. Wood (1816), 1 Wheat. 6, 8; Lessee of Scott v. Ratliffe (1831), 5 Pet. 81, 86; Ellicott v. Pearl (1836), 10 Pet. 412, 436, 437; Wilson v. Simpson (1860), 9 How. 109, 121; Hopt v. Utah (1883), 110 U. S. 574, 581. And see United States v. Mulholland, 50 Fed. Rep. 413, 419.…
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    …ssible to prove a specific fact, although the witnesses to the, fact were dead; and, therefore, evidence of hearsay that the ancestor of a person, suing for freedom, was free, was held inadmissible. The same point was again decided in Davis v. Wood, 1 Wheat. 6, 3 Cond. Rep. 465. Upon these doctrines and authorities, we are of opinion, tha* the evidence in the piesent exception stated, was rightly rejected. It was evidence not to general reputation as to boundary ; but to particular facts and'circumstance…

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