Gray v. . Armistead
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Cause transmitted from the Court of Equity of Martin County, at the Spring Term 1849. William Corprew died in 1841. Wilson Corprew, one of the defendants, in October of that year was appointed his administrator and the plaintiffs were his sureties.
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Cause transmitted from the Court of Equity of Martin County, at the Spring Term 1849. William Corprew died in 1841. Wilson Corprew, one of the defendants, in October of that year was appointed his administrator and the plaintiffs were his sureties. In November, the administrator sold the effects of the intestate, and, among other things, sold a negro boy to one Chesson and took his note with two sureties for the price, $730, payable to the said Wilson as administrator of William Corprew, six months after date, 1st November 1841. On the 23rd of February 1842, the said Wilson sold the note to…
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, J.
The answers of Armistead and Latham, as well as that of Corprew, are evasive and unfair, and, taken in connection with the testimony, create a strong suspicion, that the facts are, that, in January 1S42, Corprew, being pressed for money and his property being all under execution, borrowed of Latham 86650, at a premium of ten per cent, to be returned at March Court, when Latham had promised to return it to one Gaither, of whom he had borrowed it to “ accommodate” Corprew: That on the 25th of February, in order to raise the money for Latham, Corprew, in his presence, sold the note in question,…
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