Patterson v. . Wadsworth
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action tried at Spring Term, 1883, of Row AN Superior Court, before Graves, J. This action is upon the bond of the defendant, as administrator df Chauncey Burnett, deceased, and was referred to a referee to state an account of the administration of the assets of the intestate’s estate.
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Civil Action tried at Spring Term, 1883, of Row AN Superior Court, before Graves, J. This action is upon the bond of the defendant, as administrator df Chauncey Burnett, deceased, and was referred to a referee to state an account of the administration of the assets of the intestate’s estate. Upon return of the report, the plaintiffs filed exceptions thereto, which were overruled by the court, report, confirmed, and judgment rendered accordingly, from which the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
Chauncey Burnett, a temporary resident in Rowan county, engaged in manufacturing and selling wheat fans before and up to the commencement of the late war, soon after left the state and returned to New York, the state of his domicil. A portion of his property here was thereafter seques- tcred under an act of the Confederate congress, passing into the hands of J. I. Shaver, receiver, by whom its proceeds were paid over to that government. At the close of hostilities, Barnett returned and collected a considerable amount of his effects, and some money from parties who had bought at the receiver’s…
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