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  "name": "JOSIAH BRIDGERS & WIFE vs. ISAAC W. HUTCHINS, Adm'r., &c.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Bridgers v. Hutchins",
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      "JOSIAH BRIDGERS & WIFE vs. ISAAC W. HUTCHINS, Adm'r., &c."
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      {
        "text": "Ruffin, C. J.\nThe decree must be affirmed with costs. A gift to the husband during coverture is undoubtedly an advancement to the wife : and it is quite clear, that the release of cancelling of the bonds of the child, with the intention thereby to prefer him in life, is as much an advancement as so much cash. Gilbert v. Wetherell, 2 Simons and Stuart, 254.\nPee Cuhiam. Decree affirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "McRae and W. H. Haywood, for the plaintiffs.",
      "G. W. Haywood and H. W. Miller, for the defendant."
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    "head_matter": "JOSIAH BRIDGERS & WIFE vs. ISAAC W. HUTCHINS, Adm'r., &c.\nAn advancement to a husband by his father in law is an advancement to the wife.\nThe release or cancelling of the bonds of a child, with an intention thereby to prefer him in life, isas much an advancement as so much cash.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Law of Wake County, at the Spring Term 1850,\u2018His Honor, Judge Manly, presiding.\nThe suit is for an account and distribution of the personal estate o\u00ed Isaac Hutchins, who died intestate in 1844, leaving four children ; of whom the feme plaintiff is one. After the administrator\u2019s answer, it was referred to the master to state the accounts of the administration, and also to enquire whether the intestate made any advancements to his children respectively and what they were, and upon the basis thereof, if found, to state the share due to the several children, if any.\nThe report ascertained the surplus in the hands of the administrator, and, after taking into the fund the several advancements made to the children respectively, it found that nothing further was going to the plaintiffs, by reason of an advancement made to the husband, Bridgers, as found by the master upon the examination of Bridgers.\u2014 Besides advancements in slaves, and other effects, and cash given, Bridgers stated before the master, that some years before 1S42, but after his marriage, he borrowed from the intestate the sum of $250 and $200, and at the several times of borrowing gave his notes therefor to the intestate: and that in 1842 the intestate gave him up the two notes, to be cancelled, saying, at the same time, that his reason for doing so was, that he, the intestate, did not want them to come against the examinant after his, the intestate\u2019s death, and that he was then old and did not expect to live long.\nThe plaintiffs objected to so much of the report as found those sums of $200 and $250 to be advancements: and upon argument the exception was over-ruled and the petition dismissed with costs, and the plaintiffs appealed.\nMcRae and W. H. Haywood, for the plaintiffs.\nG. W. Haywood and H. W. Miller, for the defendant."
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