Villines v. . Norfleet
Supreme Court of North Carolina
The bill was filed in the year 1826 in Caswell. The plaintiffs charged that their father Hezekiah VUlines was a resident of Nansemond county, in the State of Virginia; that hy his will he left several specific legacies, and all the residue to his wife and three children, to-wit: the plaintiff Mraham. a son Thomas who was dead, and whose administrator was a party, and a daughter Nancy, and appointed his wife and the defendant executors, and died in the year 1784; that a large…
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The bill was filed in the year 1826 in Caswell. The plaintiffs charged that their father Hezekiah VUlines was a resident of Nansemond county, in the State of Virginia; that hy his will he left several specific legacies, and all the residue to his wife and three children, to-wit: the plaintiff Mraham. a son Thomas who was dead, and whose administrator was a party, and a daughter Nancy, and appointed his wife and the defendant executors, and died in the year 1784; that a large personal estate of the testator came to the hands of the executors ; that the widow also died eight years after the…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruetieí, Judge.
The bill was filed in 1826, and seeks a general account of the estate of the plaintiff’s father, of whom the defendant is surviving executor. And particularly it prays a division of several slaves and their increase, which the defendant claims as having purchased at sales of his testator’s estate in 1797 or before, and of the hires of them and other slaves before that time. The bill states the death of the testator forty-two years before the filing of it ; and it admits a settlement made in December, 1797V between the defendant and the plaintiff Abraham, in his own right and as…
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