Ham v. . Kornegay
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action heard upon complaint and demurrer at Spring Term, 1881, of Wayne Superior Court, before Grooves, J. The plaintiff in her complaint alleged substantially as follows: That she is the widow and one of the distributees in the estate of Haywood Ham, who died intestate in the year 1868, and Henry B. Ham qualified as his administrator. That the defendant W. F. Kornegay and W. G. Hollow’ell wTere the sureties to his administration bond.
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Civil Action heard upon complaint and demurrer at Spring Term, 1881, of Wayne Superior Court, before Grooves, J. The plaintiff in her complaint alleged substantially as follows: That she is the widow and one of the distributees in the estate of Haywood Ham, who died intestate in the year 1868, and Henry B. Ham qualified as his administrator. That the defendant W. F. Kornegay and W. G. Hollow’ell wTere the sureties to his administration bond. That the plaintiff is also the widow of Henry B. Ham with whom she intermarried after the death of her first husband. That H. B. Ham settled the estate…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
This suit is against the defendant W. F. Kor-negay, administrator of H. B. Ham and the other defendants, who are the sureties on the official bond of said IT. B. Ham as administrator of Haywood Ham, deceased, to recover a distributive share in the estate of the said Haywood, due to the plaintiff as one of the distributees as shown by the final account of said H. B. Ham, as administrator, returned to the probate court of the county of Wayne.
There have been so many adjudications in this state upon this point, that there is no proposition of law better settled than that where an administrator…
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