Scroggs v. . Stevenson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, heard upon exceptions to the report of a referee, by MacRae, J., at May Term, 1886, of Iredell Superior Court. The defendant M. M. Alexander, who was one of the legatees of Adam R. Simonton, appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
Adam R. Simonton died in the year 1863, leaving a will made in 1859, wherein he appoints Joseph F. Alexander executor, who, upon its probate, and his own qualification, entered upon the discharge of his trusts. The executor died intestate in January, 1870, and the defendant J. Harvey Stevenson became his administrator, and in the same year letters of administration de bonis non with the will annexed issued to the plaintiff, James H. Scroggs, on the testator’s estate. The present proceeding was begun in the Probate Court of Iredell, against the said Stevenson, as administrator, and the other…
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