Morton, Adm'r. v. . Ashbee, Adm'r.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an Action of Debt upon ’the bond of defendant’s intestate, as administrator of Samuel B. Dozier, tried before bis Honor Judge Bailey, at the Spring Term 1854, of Currituck Superior Court. The case was, by consent, referred to a commissioner, to whose report exceptions were filed, and, from the ruling of the Court on these exceptions, both parties appealed. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
This case comes before the Court, upon the appeal of both parties, and to the proper understanding of it, the following statement is necessary: The plaintiff’s intestate, Samuel B. Dozier, was, at the time of his death in December, 1850, and had been for several years before that time, Sheriff of the county of Currituck. Upon his death, the defendant’s intestate, Thomas Gregg, who had been his deputy for several years, and, as such, had undertaken to collect taxes for him in a certain district of the county, took out, on the 23d day of December, special letters — and at the February Term of…
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