Hall v. . Short
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action tried at Spring Term, 1879, of Halifax. Superior Court, before Eure, J. The case states: On the 27th of April, 1858, one Thomas B. Nichols, as principal, and Charles Latham and the defendant executed to the clerk and master in equity for Halifax county, a bond in the sum of three thousand dollars,, conditioned as follows: “ A' tract of land belonging to the-said Nichols for life, remainder to Mary W. Nichols, has been sold by order .of the court of equity, and…
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Civil Action tried at Spring Term, 1879, of Halifax. Superior Court, before Eure, J. The case states: On the 27th of April, 1858, one Thomas B. Nichols, as principal, and Charles Latham and the defendant executed to the clerk and master in equity for Halifax county, a bond in the sum of three thousand dollars,, conditioned as follows: “ A' tract of land belonging to the-said Nichols for life, remainder to Mary W. Nichols, has been sold by order .of the court of equity, and the money ($1,500) paid over to said Thomas 13. Nichols; now if said Nichols at his death shall pay to said Mary the said…
1Opinion of the Court
Dillakd,. J.
There was a sum of money in the hands of the clerk and master, arising from the sale of lands for partition, to the use of which one Thos. B. Nichols was entitled for term of his life and then the principal was to remain, over to the present plaintiff who was a feme covert before and long after the sale made by decree of the court of equity.
Nichols, the party entitled for life, was allowed by order of the court to receive and use the principal fund itself, on the execution of a bond with sureties, to be approved by the clerk and master, conditioned for the payment of the same at…
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