Fisher v. . Fisher
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff, administratrix, and defendants from Lyon, J., at March Term, 1915, of Guileobd. Civil action, beard on petition filed in the cause alleging unauthorized and improper expenditures by C.' A. Bray, trustee, and report of referee concerning same.
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Appeal by plaintiff, administratrix, and defendants from Lyon, J., at March Term, 1915, of Guileobd. Civil action, beard on petition filed in the cause alleging unauthorized and improper expenditures by C.' A. Bray, trustee, and report of referee concerning same. On perusal of the record, it apipears that B. J. Fisher died in 1913, leaving him surviving a widow, Isabella, who qualified as administratrix, with the will annexed, and several minor children, defendants, and a last will and testament in which the bulk of his property, in America, was devised and bequeathed to his wife for life,…
1Opinion of the Court
UoKE, J.,
after stating tbe case: We have given tbe record very careful examination and find no reason for disturbing bis Honor’s judgment. Most of tbe expenditures objected to were made by order of court, first bad, or were approved by the court after they were made, and many of them approved also by the administratrix and life tenant, entitled under tbe will to tbe income of the property, and some of tbe more important also by Olivia Maude Fisher, a defendant, one of tbe children of tbe testator, after she became of age, and when, by tbe terms of tbe will, “she was to have a voice in tbe…
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