Midgett v. . McBryde
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Midgett v. . McBryde, 48 N.C. 21 (N.C. 1855)
Pearson
Midgett v. . McBryde
Opinion of the Court
The County Court, under the Statute, (Rev. Code, cli. 5, sec. 1,) has power to bind out all free base-born children of color, without reference to the occupation or condition of the mother. .That provision of the Statute which relates to the occupation or employment of the parents is confined to cases of free negroes and mulattoes AAdiose children are legitimate. In such cases, if the parents have no honest *23 ■or industrious occupation, the children may be bound out. These considerations do not arise when the child is a bastard.
Judgment affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Nancy Midgett v. . Willoughby McBryde.
- Status
- Published
- Syllabus
- The provision of the Statute, “ All free base-born children of color are liable to be bound out as apprentices by the County Courts, although their par-rents do habitually employ their time in some honest and industrious occupation,” applies only to the legitimate children of free negroes.