Case Name: SAVAGE's EXECUTORS versus RICE
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1789-05
Citations: 1 Mart. 20
Docket Number: 
Parties: SAVAGE’s EXECUTORS versus RICE.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 20–20

Head Matter:
Edenton,
May Term, 1789.
SAVAGE’s EXECUTORS versus RICE.
THE court, after argument, said they had considered the case, and were of opinion, and so laid down the rule, that where a party lives out of the state, the adverse party may give notice to such absent party, or his attorney in court, as he may choose.

Opinion:
This opinion was delivered by
Williams, J.
who said it was the court's opinion: the other two Judges being present, and assenting tacitly,
In every instance, except where a witness is about to remove (in which case ten days notice is to be given by act of Assembly ) the court will fix the time to be given on such notice.
2, 1777, 2, 41, 306.