Legal Opinion

Gay v. . Grant

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided September 5, 1888PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Defendant's Appeal. Civil action, tried before Shepherd, J., at .June Term, 1888, of Northampton Superior Court, upon exceptions to a referee’s report. Both parties appealed from the judgment rendered.

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Defendant's Appeal. Civil action, tried before Shepherd, J., at .June Term, 1888, of Northampton Superior Court, upon exceptions to a referee’s report. Both parties appealed from the judgment rendered. Green Stancell died in January, 1862, leaving a last will and testament, in which no executor was named, and at March Term, 1862, of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Northampton County, S. T. Siancell and L. I). Gay were appointed administrators, witli the will annexed, and executed bond in the sum of $125,000, with Edmund Jacobs and J. M. S. Rogers as sureties. Both these sureties…

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DEFENDANTS' APPEAL. Green Stancell died in January, 1862, leaving a last will and (208) testament, in which no executor was named, and at March Term, 1862, of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Northampton County, S. T. Stancell and L. D. Gay were appointed administrators, with the will annexed, and executed bond in the sum of $125,000, with Edmund Jacobs and J. M. S. Rogers as sureties. Both these sureties are dead and the defendants are their administrators.

S. T. Stancell died in 1873, and R. H. Stancell, one of the plaintiffs, is his administrator, and L. D. Gay, the surviving…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Grant v. . ReeseSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1886
  2. Jacobs v. . SmallwoodSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1869
  3. Dortch v. . DortchSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1874
  4. Green v. . BarbeeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1881
  5. Keener v. FingerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1874

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Wool v. Fleetwood.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
  2. McEwen v. FletcherSupreme Court of Iowa · 1914
  3. Cawood v. Cawood's Adm'xCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1940
  4. Farabow v. . GreenSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1891
  5. Gay v. . GrantSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1890

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