Case Name: Churchill and Lamotte vs. Howard
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1804-12
Citations: 2 Hayw. 335
Docket Number: 
Parties: Churchill and Lamotte vs. Howard.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 335–336

Head Matter:
Court of Conference,
Raleigh,
December Term, 1804.
Churchill and Lamotte vs. Howard.

Opinion:
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.