Diggs v. Wormley’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““ That the issue of any marriage of colored persons, contracted and entered into according to any custom prevailing at the time in any of the States where the same occurred, shall, for all purposes of descent and inheritance and the transmission of both real and personal property in the District of Columbia, be deemed and held to be legitimate and capable of inheriting and transmitting inheritance * * * anything.in the laws of such States to the contrary notwithstanding.” 20 St. at Large, 282.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 8 App. D.C. 43 - Jennings v. Webb