State Ex Rel. Stonestreet v. Frost
Supreme Court of North Carolina
PLAINTIFF’S APPEAL. - Civil action instituted by the next of kin and dis-tributees of the estate of W. Stonestreet against the official bond of E. Fiost, his administrator, heard before Mclver, J., at Spring Term, 1898, of Davie Superior Court upon exceptions to report of referee. By leave of the Court, the County of Davie was allowed to interplead in this action in order to assert an unpaid claim, due by judgment- recovered against the intestate, in his life-time.
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PLAINTIFF’S APPEAL. - Civil action instituted by the next of kin and dis-tributees of the estate of W. Stonestreet against the official bond of E. Fiost, his administrator, heard before Mclver, J., at Spring Term, 1898, of Davie Superior Court upon exceptions to report of referee. By leave of the Court, the County of Davie was allowed to interplead in this action in order to assert an unpaid claim, due by judgment- recovered against the intestate, in his life-time. The referee reported a balance due from Frost, administrator, of $544.59. In arriving at this amount, the referee excluded a…
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, J., delivers the opinion of the court.
2DissentMontgomery, J.
The referee found as a fact that in July, 1897, Frost, the administrator, paid an attorney's fee of $100, and that he paid before that time to other attorneys for services in the settlement of the estate $40. Upon that finding of fact the referee held as a matter of law that as the administrator had paid $40 for counsel fees in the settlement of the estate, and as there was no evidence to show that he had any unusual trouble in transacting the business of the estate, and that the $100 was paid seventeen years after anything had been done by the…
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