Allen v. . Shields, Adm'r. .
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Petition for a homestead by infants, to a Justice of the Peace, and carried by appeal to Watts, J., before whom it was heard at Chambers in Halifax county, on the 4th day of August, 1874. The facts are agreed and are fully set out in the opinion of the Court. His Honor, on the hearing before him, granted the prayer of the petitioners, whereupon the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRodman, J.
The plaintiffs are the minor children of James Y. Allen, who died intestate and insolvent, seized of certain lands, in November, 1871. They claim a homestead in their father’s lands in the county of Halifax. Their claim is disputed by the defendant Shields, who is the administrator of the deceased, and by the two other defendants, Gregory and Manly, who are the creditors of the deceased, and who also severally purchased portions of his land as hereinafter stated.
The grounds of their defence are these:
1. That the debts of, the deceased to said Gregory and Manly, respectively, were contracted…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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