High v. . Pearce

STACY, C. J., and BARNHILL, J., join in concurring opinion. John A. Pearce died a resident of Wilson County, owning lands in both Johnston and Wilson counties. Altogether he owned around eighty-five acres, about fifty-three acres of which lay in Wilson County. The Wilson County lands were encumbered by a first mortgage to the Federal Land Bank of Columbia for about $4,500, and by a second mortgage to the Bank of Lucama for $250.

S.E. High, Sr., cashier of the Lucama Bank, qualified as administrator of Pearce and filed a petition in Johnston County to make assets to pay debts of the…