Legal Opinion

Camp v. . Pittman

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided February 5, 1884PublishedCited by 7 opinions

CONTROVERSY submitted without action in a'ease pending in Halifax Superior Court, and heard at Chambers on February 11th, 1884, before Avery, J. The defendant appealed from the judgment of the court below.

1Opinion of the CourtSjiith, C. J.

The ease agreed and submitted without action under section 567 of The Code involves the construction of* several provisions contained in the will of Robert W. Pittman, the defendant's testator, and the appeal is from one only of the several rulings of the judge in the court below. To this our attention is confined.

The testator died in December, 1883, leaving a will which bears date in August preceding, and has been duly proved. He nominated therein his brother Ruffin A. Pittman executor and his wife P. Eliza Pittman executrix, of whom the former renounced and the latter accepted the trust and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Neighbors v. . HamlinSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1878

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of ScovilleNew York Surrogate's Court · 1911
  2. Johnson v. SalsburySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1950
  3. Campbell v. MansfieldMississippi Supreme Court · 1913
  4. Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1948
  5. Sherrod v. ANY CHILD OR CHILDREN HEREAFTER BORN TO WATSON N. SHERRODCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1983

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