Newman v. . Bost
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action tried before Coble, J., and a jury at Fall Term, 1897, of Ibedbll Superior Court. The plaintiff alleged in her complaint that the intestate of defendant, while in his last sickness, gave her all the furniture and other property in his dwelling house as a gift causa mortis.
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Civil action tried before Coble, J., and a jury at Fall Term, 1897, of Ibedbll Superior Court. The plaintiff alleged in her complaint that the intestate of defendant, while in his last sickness, gave her all the furniture and other property in his dwelling house as a gift causa mortis. Among other things claimed, there was a policy of insurance of $3,000 on the life of intestate and other valuable papers, which she alleged were in a certain bureau drawer in intestate’s bed room. She alleged that defendant administrator has collected the policy of life insurance and sold the household and…
1Opinion of the Court
Furches, J.:
The plaintiff in her complaint demands $3,000 collected by defendant, as the administrator of J. F. Van Pelt on a life insurance policy, and now in his hands ; $300, the value of a piano upon which said Van Pelt collected that amount of insurance money ; $200.94, the value of household property sold by defendant as belonging to the estate of his intestate, and $45 the value of property in the plaintiff’s bed room and sold by the defendant as a part of the property belonging to the intestate’s estate.
The $3,000 money collected on the life insurance policy and the $200.94, the price…
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