Bunting v. . Harris
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Original Bill, for a residue alleged to be undisposed of, filed at Spring Term, 1861, of the Court of Equity for Nash county. Subsequently a demurrer was filed by the defendant, apd at Fall Term, 1862, the cause was set down for argument and removed to this court.
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Original Bill, for a residue alleged to be undisposed of, filed at Spring Term, 1861, of the Court of Equity for Nash county. Subsequently a demurrer was filed by the defendant, apd at Fall Term, 1862, the cause was set down for argument and removed to this court. The bill stated that the complainant was the father of the testator, B. B. Bunting, late of Nash county, who died in 1847, without issue, leaving a widow ; and that the defendant was the executor of that widow, and, (as such,) also of the testator. After giving an extract from the testator’s will, and stating that he died in…
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, C. J.
The bill' is very meagre in its statements, and, on that account, the court has been much embarrassed.
We are informed that the testator died without children, leaving him surviving a wife, father and mother, brother and sister. We are also informed that, at the time of his death, the testator owned some fifteen or twenty slaves; but we are not informed whether he owned any land, (except the tract devised to his father and mother,) or whether he owned any horses, cattle, hogs, crops on hand, &c. There is nothing to authorize the court to assume that he did not own any land except the tract…
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