Gordon v. Finlay.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
~i t From Wilkes*. J This was an action of detinue for a slave, tided before-Badger, Judge. On the trial it appeared that the slave in question ber longed to one Gordon, who died in 1806 intestate; administration on his estate was granted to the plaintiff, his widow, and Wesley Gordon, his son, and one of his dis-tributees.
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~i t From Wilkes*. J This was an action of detinue for a slave, tided before-Badger, Judge. On the trial it appeared that the slave in question ber longed to one Gordon, who died in 1806 intestate; administration on his estate was granted to the plaintiff, his widow, and Wesley Gordon, his son, and one of his dis-tributees. It having been ascertained that there were debts due from the estate, more than ordinary perishable property would pay, it was agreed, in 1807, between the plaintiff on the one part, and Wesley Gordon and his brothers and sisters (the other distributees) on the other, that…
1Opinion of the Court
On the trial it appeared that the slave in question belonged to one Gordon, who died in 1806 intestate; administration on his estate was granted to the plaintiff, his window, and Wesley Gordon, his son, and one of the distributees. It having been ascertained that there were debts due from the estate more than ordinary perishable property would pay, it was agreed in 1807 between the plaintiff on the one part and Wesley Gordon and his brothers and sisters (the other distributees) on the other, that if the plaintiff, their mother, would pay those debts, supposed to be of amount equal to the…
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