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  "id": 12128129,
  "name": "GORHAM & WIFE versus -",
  "name_abbreviation": "Gorham v. -",
  "decision_date": "1780-11",
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  "first_page": "52",
  "last_page": "53",
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      "cite": "1 Mart. 52"
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      "cite": "1 N.C. 52"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Super. Ct.",
    "id": 22358,
    "name": "North Carolina Superior Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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  "provenance": {
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    "source": "Harvard",
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  "casebody": {
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    "parties": [
      "GORHAM & WIFE versus -."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Whereupon the Court,\nAshe, J. Spencer, J. and Williams, J.\ndid determine, that upon the death of the first child, the mother was entitled to an equal share of the said estate of such child, with the two surviving children: and that upon the death of the other child who is deceased, she was entitled to an equal share of said estate of such deceased child, with the surviving one; and that a division of said estate be made accordingly.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Ashe, J. Spencer, J. and Williams, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "\u201c James Iredell, for the plaintiff.",
      "\u201c William Hooper, for the defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Newbern,\nNovember Term, 1780.\nGORHAM & WIFE versus -.\nPETITION. The following case was reserved for the opinion of the Court, viz.\n\u201c John Speir of Pitt county, in his last will and testament, a \u201c mong other things, bequeathed as follows, to wit:\n\u201c Item, I give and bequeath all the rest of my negroes and their in \u201c crease, to be equally divided among my children, the survivor or survivors of them, and their heirs forever.\n\u201c The testator died, leaving his wife and three children, two of \u201c the children, viz. William and Elizabeth, died intants and un \" der age.\n\u201c The question is, whether the mother (Penelope, now wife of \u201c James Gorham) upon the death of the said two children, was \u201c entitled to any, and if any, what part of the said children\u2019s share of the legacy abovementioned?\n\u201c We agree to submit the above question to the decision of the \u201ccourt, and that they may thereupon make such decree upon the \u201c above petition, as to them shall seem just.\n\u201c James Iredell, for the plaintiff.\n\u201c William Hooper, for the defendant.\n\u201c Newbern, November 22, 1780.\u201d"
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