Ruffin v. . Cox
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil aotioN to recover $1,000, tried before his Honor Judge Clarice, at Spring Term, 1874, of the Superior Court of WilsoN county, upon the following CASH AGREED. In the year 1854, H. J. Q-. Bufiin died in the county of Franklin, having made and published his last will and testament, which was duly admitted to probate in the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said county at its March Term, 1854, was recorded and the executor therein named qualified.
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Civil aotioN to recover $1,000, tried before his Honor Judge Clarice, at Spring Term, 1874, of the Superior Court of WilsoN county, upon the following CASH AGREED. In the year 1854, H. J. Q-. Bufiin died in the county of Franklin, having made and published his last will and testament, which was duly admitted to probate in the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said county at its March Term, 1854, was recorded and the executor therein named qualified. That item 7 of said will was as follows; (¿Item 7.) “I give and devise to my son, Dr. George W. Baffin, the one-half part in value of my…
1Opinion of the CourtSettle, J.
By reference to the 7th and 9th items of the will of Henry J. G. Euffin, it will be seen that he has charged the land devised to his son Ethelred with the payment of the sum of $1,000, in favor of his son George W., in terms too plain to admit of a doubt. His language leaves no room for construction, but charges the land devised to Etheldred with $1,000, which sum the said Ethelred is to pay to his brother George W"., within two years after the death of the testator; and he repeats, “ this said sum. of $1,000 is to be charged on the share of his- land, herein devised to him the said Etheldred…
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