University of N. C. v. Hughes
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tried at Fall Term, 1883, of NORTHAMPTON Superior Court, before Shepherd, J. The suit was brought on the bond of an administrator to recover a sum alleged to be due the plaintiff University as an undistributed surplus unclaimed by creditors, next of kin, or otherwise.
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Civil ActioN tried at Fall Term, 1883, of NORTHAMPTON Superior Court, before Shepherd, J. The suit was brought on the bond of an administrator to recover a sum alleged to be due the plaintiff University as an undistributed surplus unclaimed by creditors, next of kin, or otherwise. The issues having been found in favor of the plaintiff!,' the court gave judgment accordingly, and the defendant appealed, assigning for error among other things that no administrator de bonis «ora had been appointed on the estate of John Lee, deceased.
1Opinion of the CourtMekuiMON, J.
John Lee, an alien, died intestate in the year 1863, in the county of Northampton, and Samuel Calvert was appointed his administrator. At December term, 1865, of the court of pleas and quarter sessions of that county, commissioners-were appointed to audit his account as administrator, and make report to the next term of the court. At March term, 1866, the commissioners made and filed their report, showing a balancee in the hands of the administrator of $3,990.35 in Confederate money. This report was ordered to be ‘‘certified and recorded.”
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