“ Lee, cited the opinion of the Virginia court of appeals, in the case of Pegram v. Isabel,a as to the admissibility of the record, in which a record was admitted.
Key, contra, contended, that both grounds were irrevocably closed against the other party. The first certainly; and the second equally so; as the evidence could not be admissible as prima facie testimony merely, but if admitted must be conclusive. The decisions in the state courts of Virginia are against the evidence of the parent's or other ancestor's freedom being conclusive in favour of a child. ”