Gabie v. . Meilan

On the trial of the cause in New Hanover Superior Court, it was admitted that the breaches assigned had been committed; whereupon the plaintiff, in order to show the damage he had sustained, offered in evidence the record of a recovery he had obtained against Meilan, as administrator of Ruggles. The defendant objected to this evidence, on the ground that he had been appointed administrator to Nathaniel Ruggles, in which form the bond was given, and that the record offered in evidence shows that a suit had been instituted against him by Gabie, as administrator of N.W. Ruggles, and judgment…