Watts v. . Warren
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil action, tried at October Term, 1890, of Durham Superior Court, before MacRae, J. It appears that Julius B. Warren died intestate in the county of Durham in the month of June, 1889, and the defendant W. A. Warren duly b.ecame the administrator of his estate. This action is brought by the creditors of the intestate to compel the defendant administrator to an account of his administration, and to pay the creditors what may be payable to them respectively.
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This was a civil action, tried at October Term, 1890, of Durham Superior Court, before MacRae, J. It appears that Julius B. Warren died intestate in the county of Durham in the month of June, 1889, and the defendant W. A. Warren duly b.ecame the administrator of his estate. This action is brought by the creditors of the intestate to compel the defendant administrator to an account of his administration, and to pay the creditors what may be payable to them respectively. The other defendants are brought into the action, to the end they may be concluded in respects not necessary to be…
1Opinion of the Court
MerrimoN, C. J.:
Assignments of error upon the ground that evidence tendered on the trial was improperly rejected, should distinctly specify its relevancy and materiality. The Court must be able to see its nature and application with reasonable certainty. Otherwise, it cannot say that there is, or is not, error. The presumption is that the rulings of the Court are correct, until the contrary is made to appear in some appropriate way. Whitesides v. Twitty, 8 Ired., 431; Knight v. Killebrew, 86 N. C., 400; Sumner v. Candler, 92 N. C., 634.
Although the evidence which the defendants sought to…
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