20 S.E. 462 | N.C. | 1894
The account is entitled on its face an annual account; it is so styled by the clerk in approving and filing, it, and it is recorded by him in his "Record of Accounts" and not in the book entitled (119) "Final Settlements." The court properly instructed the jury that it was not a final account, and that the six-years statute of limitations did not apply. In Vaughan v. Hines,
Brawley v. Brawley held that the statute of limitations did not run to bar an action by an administrator de bonis non against the representative and bondsmen of a deceased administrator while there was (120) no administrator de bonis non — no one in esse who could bring such action. This would not apply to an action brought by the creditor, or a distributee, or legatee, directly against the representative of the deceased executor, administrator or guardian and their sureties for breach of the bond. Of course, after the death of the first administrator, an action to establish a disputed debt could be brought only against the administrator be bonis non.
Affirmed.
Cited: Winslow v. Benton,