Nicholson v. Commissioners of Dare County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, for mandamus, &c., to enforce payment of plaintiff’s interest in a judgment rendered in favor of Commissioners of Currituck County v. Commissioners of Dare County, which belonged to the testator and others, tried at-term of CuRRItucK Superior Court, before Creen, J. There was no judgment in favor of plaintiff against the Commissioners of Dare and no evidence of assignment of the judgment or any interest therein to plaintiff by the Commissioners of Currituck,…
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Civil actioN, for mandamus, &c., to enforce payment of plaintiff’s interest in a judgment rendered in favor of Commissioners of Currituck County v. Commissioners of Dare County, which belonged to the testator and others, tried at-term of CuRRItucK Superior Court, before Creen, J. There was no judgment in favor of plaintiff against the Commissioners of Dare and no evidence of assignment of the judgment or any interest therein to plaintiff by the Commissioners of Currituck, but there was evidence of such assignment to C. W. Nicholson and others. There was verdict and judgment for the plaintiff;…
1Opinion of the Court
Furches, J.:
Plaintiff claims that the County of Cur-rituck was largely indebted to C. W. Nicholson, who was plaintiff’s husband, and who died about the first of June, 1880, leaving a last will and testament in which he bequeathed this debt, on Currituck County, to her — which last will and testament has been duly admitted to probate.
That the County of Currituck, having a large debt against the County of Dare which had been reduced to judgment in September, 1881, assigned §712.77 in the Dare County judgment to the said C. W. Nicholson, in part satisfaction of the indebtedness of Currituck to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Scott v. McNealSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
3Cited by4 opinions
- Spivey v. GodfreySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1963
- Nicholson v. Commissioners of Dare CountySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1897
- Nicholson v. Commissioners of Dare CountySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1896
- Nicholson v. Commissioners of Dare CountySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1898