Hooks v. . Lee
Supreme Court of North Carolina
■An interlocutory decree having been made in this cause» at December Term, 1850, overruling the demurrer, the cause was sent down to the Court of Equity of Wayne County. Answers having been filed and other proceedings had, it was set for hearing and transmitted to this Court at the Spring Term, 1851.
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, C. J.
This cause was heard in this Court at December Term, 1850, on appeal from a decree overruling a demurrer, as reported in 7 ire. Eq. 83, and the decree was affirmed, and the cause remanded for an answer, and for further proceedings. The defendant put in an answer setting forth an account of his late wife’s personal estate, and then the cause was set down and removed to this Court for hearing. Upon the hearing, the counsel for the defendant again raised the question, as to the construction of the marriage articles and contended, that, as the wife did not dispose of the slaves and other…
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