Green v. . Branton
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Pitt. The bill charged, that the Plaintiff’s father, Samuel Branton, died in 1800, leaving four children, William, Samuel, Elizabeth, then intermarried with Matthias Holstein, nf Pennsylvania, and the Plaintiff, then intermarried with George Green : That the father died seised in. fee of the land in dispute, and intestate : That his two sobs administered, and received personal assets more than sufficient to pay all his debts ; which consisted in part, of a debt to one…
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Pitt. The bill charged, that the Plaintiff’s father, Samuel Branton, died in 1800, leaving four children, William, Samuel, Elizabeth, then intermarried with Matthias Holstein, nf Pennsylvania, and the Plaintiff, then intermarried with George Green : That the father died seised in. fee of the land in dispute, and intestate : That his two sobs administered, and received personal assets more than sufficient to pay all his debts ; which consisted in part, of a debt to one Standley of =631. 1 and of a debt to one Curl, of =224. 2 : That, the two sons fraudulently bought in all the personal…
1Opinion of the Court
S.0FUIN, Judge,
after stating the case, proceeded : The deeds made by the father are among the exhibits, and are so d< feciively drawn as to be wholly inoperative» Besides hat, the depositions show,, that those deeds were obtained from the old man in extremis, and under circumstances which completely invaliua.e them. It was a gross and unfeeling imposition on the father’s weakness. They are not, the shadow of a title for the Defendants y but constitute cogent evidence against them. Had the bill been differently framed, those (beds might have furnished a specific ground of relief. If they had…
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