90 Va. 390 | Va. | 1894
delivered the opinion of the court.
But it is contended by the counsel for the appellants that a recent case in this court has substantially overruled Stones v. Keeling, and they cite Greenhow v. James’ ex’or, 80 Va., 636; but we do not so regard it. That was the case of the illegitimate children of a white person by a negro, who left the State, and were married abroad. The distinction is sufficiently drawn in the opinion in that case; and in the case of Stones v. Keeling, supra, Judge Roane, who delivered one of the opinions in that case, does the same on page 148, saying: “ The law concerning marriages is to be construed and understood in relation to those persons only to whom that law relates, and not to a class of persons cl earl} not within the idea of the legislature when contemplating the subject of marriage and legiti
Decree aeeirmed.