Court Opinion

ID: 3658221
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:10:45.156667+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:19:35.072863
License: Public Domain

McKerall, the first husband of the defendant, Mrs. Child, part of whose estate is now sought after, died about 1776; his residence was at Norfolk, in the State of Virginia. Early in the Revolutionary War his widow and children removed to Hillsborough, in this State. In 1793, when the parties were of full age, a settlement was made between them by two persons chosen for that purpose. In this settlement Mrs. Child was debited with a certain sum of money received from Nevison, the witness, a resident of Norfolk. Nineteen years afterwards the present bill was filed. The complainants allege that Mrs. Child received a larger sum of money from Nevison than she was debited with in the settlement, and that they did not become acquainted with that fact until within six months before the suit was brought. They give us no reason, however, why they did not become acquainted with it. Nevison was as easy of access then as afterwards; facts could haves been established with more certainty then than nineteen or more years afterwards. (384) *Page 180 
The mind and memory of Mrs. Child, who is now well stricken in years, were then much nearer their wonted vigor.
For these reasons, I have but little hesitation in saying that the bill ought to be
By the Court,                                    Dismissed with costs.
Cited: McLin v. McNamara, 21 N.C. 409; McDonald v. McLeod, 36 N.C. 224.