Hinsdale v. . Hawley
Supreme Court of North Carolina
MOTION to set aside a judgment heard at Eall Term, 1882, of CUMBERLAND Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. This action, upon a promissory note given by Hawley & Lee, was begun in April, 1867, against the surviving partner Lee, and the defendant Sarah E. Hawley, administratrix of the deceased partner, and at the return term of the superior court of law of Cumberland, the administratrix entered the plea of fully administered.
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MOTION to set aside a judgment heard at Eall Term, 1882, of CUMBERLAND Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. This action, upon a promissory note given by Hawley & Lee, was begun in April, 1867, against the surviving partner Lee, and the defendant Sarah E. Hawley, administratrix of the deceased partner, and at the return term of the superior court of law of Cumberland, the administratrix entered the plea of fully administered. No other defence appears to have been made against a recovery. At November term, 1869, the cause having been transferred to the superior court, judgment was entered up in…
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, C. J.,
after stating the case. Our attention is called to the case of Wolfe v. Davis, 74 N. C., 597, wherein a judgment, essentially the same in terms as the present, is held to be irregular, and a refusal to set it aside reversed for error. The ruling would be directly applicable if the movement in this case for the vacation of the judgment, as in that, had proceeded from the defendant, the injured party. The administratrix has been deprived of her defence of a want of assets, .po as to render her personally chargeable, if the record remains showing an absolute and final judgment…
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