Claflin v. . Harrison
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from an order of Boykin, /., at May Term, 1890, of VANCE Superior Court. The action was instituted for the purpose, among others, of subjecting the real estate of Mrs. Nancy Verrell, in Nash County, to the debts of the firm of Harrison Bridgers Dry Goods Company, of which firm she was a member. After the action was instituted her death was suggested, and at the February Term, 1890, her administrator was made a party.
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Appeal from an order of Boykin, /., at May Term, 1890, of VANCE Superior Court. The action was instituted for the purpose, among others, of subjecting the real estate of Mrs. Nancy Verrell, in Nash County, to the debts of the firm of Harrison Bridgers Dry Goods Company, of which firm she was a member. After the action was instituted her death was suggested, and at the February Term, 1890, her administrator was made a party. The defendant Louis Hilliard, a resident of Norfolk, Virginia, claimed to have a mortgage on the real estate of Nancy Verrell. On 7th December, 1888, the Clerk of Vance…
1Opinion of the Court
Shephekd, J.:
The plaintiffs pray judgment for their debts; that the defendants be declared guilty of a fraud in contracting the same; that an execution be issued against their persons in the event that executions against their property be returned unsatisfied, and that one of the defendants be required to turn over to a receiver the personal property exemption hitherto allotted to him out of the assets of the firm. They also pray that the lands of Nancy Verrell be sold by a. commissioner and that the proceeds of the sale be distributed among them. We are at a loss to understand the precise…
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