Bushee v. . Surles
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Actios tried at Spring Term, 1877, of Harnett Superior Court, before McKoy, J. This aetion was commenced in the Probate Court of said' County by the plaintiffs as heirs-at-law of Patience Bushee against the defendant, Lewis M. Surles, administrator off said Patience, and James C. Surles, executor of Consider • Bushee, her husband, for an account and settlement, and for1 their distributive shares.
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Civil Actios tried at Spring Term, 1877, of Harnett Superior Court, before McKoy, J. This aetion was commenced in the Probate Court of said' County by the plaintiffs as heirs-at-law of Patience Bushee against the defendant, Lewis M. Surles, administrator off said Patience, and James C. Surles, executor of Consider • Bushee, her husband, for an account and settlement, and for1 their distributive shares. Upon issues joined, it was transferred to the Superior Court for trial, and under the instructions of His Honor the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiffs and the defendants appealed. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBynum, J.
It was left to the jury as an issue of fact, whether James C. Surjes obtained the assignments of the-distributive shares of three of the plaintiffs in the estate of' Patience Bushee, fraudulently. The case is before us upon questions of evidence which arose on the trial of that issue.
The case is this: The defendants, Lewis and James Surles, are brothers; Consider and Patience Bushee were husband and wife.' On the death of Consider, James Surles became-his executor; on the death of Patience, Lewis Surles became her administrator. Consider Bushee, by his will, gave his-wife a life estate in his…
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