Green v. . Lane
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This cause ivas removed from the Court of Equity for Craven County, at Spring Term, 1851 ; and came on at this term, upon a petition to re-hear the decretal order made therein, at December Term, 1851, of this Court. The following is the case, as stated by Chief Justice RuffiN, in delivering the former opinion of the Court — (8 Ire. Eq. Rep.
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This cause ivas removed from the Court of Equity for Craven County, at Spring Term, 1851 ; and came on at this term, upon a petition to re-hear the decretal order made therein, at December Term, 1851, of this Court. The following is the case, as stated by Chief Justice RuffiN, in delivering the former opinion of the Court — (8 Ire. Eq. Rep. TO):— " William S. Morris, of Newbeni, made his will on the 15th of March, 1831, and therein appointed the defendant Lane the executor, and gave to his executor all his estates, except a negro woman named Patsy, and her three children, Harriet, Albert and…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
This is a petition to rehear a decretal order made in this cause, at the December Term, 1851, of this Court. The parts of the decree complained of, are those wherein the Court declares, “ that, the codicil to the will of 1831, set forth in the “ pleadings, and exhibited in the cause, operated so as to revoke “such of the provisions of the will providing for the emancipa-ron of the slaves, as might have been lawfully carried into ex- “ ecution, inasmuch as it provided for their residence in this State, “ in a condition and state contrary to our laws and policy ; and “ thereupon adjudges that…
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