Grant v. . Bell
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION for account and settlement, tried at Spring Term, 1880, of Northampton Superior Court,before Gudger, J. In 1841 one William B. Lockhart died, leaving a last will, whereof he appointed as executors one Gray and the defendant, who had intermarried with one of his daughters, she, however, being then dead.
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Civil ACTION for account and settlement, tried at Spring Term, 1880, of Northampton Superior Court,before Gudger, J. In 1841 one William B. Lockhart died, leaving a last will, whereof he appointed as executors one Gray and the defendant, who had intermarried with one of his daughters, she, however, being then dead. By said will the testator devised a certain tract of land known as the “Gee tract,” to bis widow, Sarah Lockhart, requesting her however to permit the defendant to occupy it until he should contract another marriage, and thereafter to cultivate it for the benefit of William T.…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruffin, J.,
after stating the above. As disclosed in the record, the plaintiff’s first two exceptions relate to the admission of certain evidence, but as his counsel failed to advert to the subject in their argument here, we infer their purpose to abandon them, and therefore content ourselves with saying that in our opinion they were properly abandoned.
In lieu of the issues submitted and passed upon by the jury, the plaintiff proposed the following :
1. Was B. F. Lockhart insolvent on the 25th day of November, 1862? (that being the day on which he executed the receipt.)
2. Hotv much money did…
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