Hobbs v. . Craige
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a petition filed in the Superior Court of Davie county, calling upon two of the defendants, executors of Anderson E. Foster, to account for his estate and pay the petitioners their sharp of the surplus as devised to them and othrers, and making others defendants, who were alleged to be also legatees of this surplus. Thefacts and pleadings in the case are fully set forth in the opinionof the court.
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This was a petition filed in the Superior Court of Davie county, calling upon two of the defendants, executors of Anderson E. Foster, to account for his estate and pay the petitioners their sharp of the surplus as devised to them and othrers, and making others defendants, who were alleged to be also legatees of this surplus. Thefacts and pleadings in the case are fully set forth in the opinionof the court. Theexceptionsbythe defendants to there-port of the commissioner, made in the case upon the accounts of the executors and referred to in the opinion of the court, are these: 1st. That from…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaston, Judge.
This case comes before us by an appeal from adecreee of the Superior Court of Davie', rendered in a proceeding by petition. Oil an inspection of the record, it appears that at the'Spring'Term, 1838, of that court, the petition was filed by Milton Hobbs and Irene his wife and Sarah Foster, against Robert N. Craige, Burton Craige, Samuel Craige, John Craige, Giles- Foster; Ellis Foster, Berry Foster and his wife Mary, but that subsequently, by permission of the court, Giles Foster and? Berry Foster and wife were stricken out of the' bill, as parties defendants, and, instead…
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