Case Name: Anderson's Administrator vs. -
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1797-11
Citations: 2 Hayw. 22
Docket Number: 
Parties: Anderson's Administrator vs. -
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 22–23

Head Matter:
Anderson's Administrator vs. -
A NDERSON died, and the defendant applied to the county court of New-Hanover for administration, who ordered letters to be issued to him, he giving bond, See, lie never gave the bond, huí took possession of the effects of the intestate j some •of them he sold and took bonds for; the others he retained, having first exposed them to sale and bid them off himself: then letters of administration were granted to Hooper and two others, who gave bond and security, and Sled a bill in Equity, stating that the defendant was wasting the goods and effects of the intestate, and was receiving the defats due upon the bonds, and was about to retire in a short time to Ireland,

Opinion:
Judge Haywood,
in the vacation, granted an injunction agaissfc bis receiving any more of the bond debts, but refused to grant a sequestration as to the goods in specie, until the sitting of the court: And now at this term, affidavits were produced in support of the charge of wasting the effects, and of the defendant being about to remove immediately to Ireland ; and the court upon the precedents of Barrow and Barrow, and a case in this court in the spring circuit in 170S, ordered curls sequestration to issue, and the effects in specie to be taken into the possession of the sequestrators, and retained by them till the defendant should give security to abide the event qí the suit absolutely § and in case of his not giving such security, they were empowered to sell the effects, taking bond with sufficient securities for the purchase money ; also they were empowered to take possession, ef the bonds, and to bring suit for the monies due thereon, and to keep all the said monies in their hands till the further order <j>f the court. And the court said, though the defendant had bid off the effects now remaining in specie in his hands, that had made no alteration of the property, they tv ere still part of the estate of the deceased.