Finch v. . Ragland
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This bill was filed in August 1827, in the court of equity of Chatham, by the plaintiffs, the widow and next of kin of Jklam Finch, for an account and settlement of the estate. It appeared upon the pleadings, that Finch died intestate in 1807, and administration was shortly after committed to the defendant Robert and to one Abraham Harper, who died in 1810 intestate, and upon whose estate the other defendants Henry Branson and Thomas Ragland administered.
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This bill was filed in August 1827, in the court of equity of Chatham, by the plaintiffs, the widow and next of kin of Jklam Finch, for an account and settlement of the estate. It appeared upon the pleadings, that Finch died intestate in 1807, and administration was shortly after committed to the defendant Robert and to one Abraham Harper, who died in 1810 intestate, and upon whose estate the other defendants Henry Branson and Thomas Ragland administered. In the court below it was referred to the master to state an account of the administration of Finch’s estate, and to his report exceptions…
1Opinion
To the grounds stated in the former decree for the allowance of commissions the Court has nothing to add. They then appeared to us sufficient; and they now seem so. The order must, therefore, stand as to that part of it. The other point raised in the petition was not free from difficulty when the decree was pronounced, and has been carefully reconsidered now. The result is an increased confidence in the correctness of the rule adopted.
The argument against it assumes that the Court dispenses with the production by an administrator of bonds alleged by him to have been due from the intestate to…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Grant v. . ReeseSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1886
- Costen v. . McDowellSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1890
- Drake v. . DrakeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1880
- Wilson v. . LinebergerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1883
- Jackson v. . ShieldsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1882
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