Jackson v. . Shields
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil AotioN tried on exceptions to referee’s report, at Spring Term, 1882, of Moore Superior Court before Shipp, J. Cornelius Shields died in Moore county in 1857, and letters of administration upon his estate were granted to John C. Jackson, the plaintiff of record.
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Civil AotioN tried on exceptions to referee’s report, at Spring Term, 1882, of Moore Superior Court before Shipp, J. Cornelius Shields died in Moore county in 1857, and letters of administration upon his estate were granted to John C. Jackson, the plaintiff of record. At April term, 1859, of the county court, the plaintiff, as such administrator, filed a petition against the next of kin of his intestate, alleging that he had paid the debts of the estate and had in hand a large sum for distribution, and praying .the court to have an account taken of his administration, and of the advancements…
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, J.
The first exception taken.in this court is the one numbered two in the record, and is a mere matter of computation. The referee finds that under the decree rendered in 1860, there was due to the defendant, Robert Shields, the sum of $416.10, with interest from the 25th day of October, 1859, and that this amount had been fully paid to him by the plaintiff. The only payments which the evidence discloses-as hav.ing been niade to him, amount to $412.52 of which $406.71 was paid him on the 7th of September, 1860, and $5.81 on the 1st of October of the same year. At that time there was due as…
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