Case Name: Smith vs. Estes and Mallett
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1801-11
Citations: 2 Hayw. 156
Docket Number: 
Parties: Smith vs. Estes and Mallett.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 156–156

Head Matter:
Smith vs. Estes and Mallett.
AfiKIS time 12 months, the bill was abated as to Estes, and ad order made by the master to lake on account.

Opinion:
Judge JJall
now renewed that order, though it was strenuously urged there had never been a decree to account. He did it he said, upon the ground of the former order ; but he considered the practice to be in some cases, 'hat such a reference did not preclude the parties from insisting that he Ought not to be decreed to account. And owing to the particular circumstances of this ca£e, he would consider that the reference should not conclude, if the merits ware with the defendant; but he would not order that the said reference should not preclude Mallett fretft insisting that he should not be decreed to account-»
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