Covington Ex Rel. Covington v. Leak
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal, from the ruling ot the Clerk of the Superior Court of Richmond County, heard before Buxton, J., at Spring Term, 1871, of Richmond Superior Court. This was a special proceeding instituted before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Richmond County, for an account and settlement of the estate of the plaintiffs Baseomb, John P. and Virginia Covington, who were formerly wards of Mial Wall, deceased, and the defendants, who are his executors.
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Appeal, from the ruling ot the Clerk of the Superior Court of Richmond County, heard before Buxton, J., at Spring Term, 1871, of Richmond Superior Court. This was a special proceeding instituted before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Richmond County, for an account and settlement of the estate of the plaintiffs Baseomb, John P. and Virginia Covington, who were formerly wards of Mial Wall, deceased, and the defendants, who are his executors. A report of said estate was taken by the said Clerk, and exceptions filed both by the plaintiffs and defendants, and an [appeal taken to the Superior…
1Opinion of the CourtHodman, J.
Exceptions of defendants:
1. That their testator is charged with $3,830.80 and interest, being the amount found owing to their testator, as guardian, by James A. Covington, administrator of John P. Covington, by a report made by the County Court of Eichmond County, on the 20th of October, 1863, by commissioners appointed by that Court to state an account.
His Honor, the Judge, below sustains this exception, and finds as facts, that on the 20th of October, 1863, the said James, administrator of John P. Covington, tendered the sum found owing by him to Mial "Wall, in Confederate money, who…
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