3 N.C. 406 | Sup. Ct. N.C. | 1806
¡iT'HIS bill stated that M‘Neil in the year 1777, being married “®- to his wife Fanny, was called upon to take the oath of allegiance to this state or to depart — -he refused so to do, and was compelled to leave the state under the penalty by law established of incurring the crime of high treason if he returned. That the said Fannv was.left here, and afterwards intermarried during his life, with Troughton; and in the year 1793, by deed, conveyed to Troughton all her property and righ ts to property ; and that the defendant was accountable to her for divers sums of money and articles of property due from her father’s and mother’s estate, under their wills. The defendant demurred to this bill, because by her own shewing, being either the wile of M'Neil or of Troughton, she could not convey by the deed men-
The demurrer must be over-ruled; and it. was over-ruled, and the defendant’s ordered to answer.