FEBRUARY TERM, 1816. Evidence by hearsay and general reputation is admissible only as to pedigree, but not to establish the freedom of the petitioner's ancestor, and thence to deduce his or her own. Verdicts are evidence between parties and privies only; and a record proving the ancestor's freedom to have been established in a suit against another party by whom the petitioner was sold to the present defendant, is inadmissible evidence to prove the petitioner's freedom. Lee, for the plaintiffs in
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