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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Court of Conference,
    
    Raleigh,
    December Term, 1804.
    
      Churchill and Lamotte vs. Howard.
    
   fpHE question here was, whether the defendant, who was •*- executor, could plead judgments obtained against him since tbe last continuance : and the court now decided that the defendant must plead at first the true state of his assets ; otherwise he might delay the plaintiffs until after a bond debt become payable — then suff ;r judgment in that, and bar the present plaintiff by pleading a judgment upon a debt not due till long alter the commencement of the present suit.