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  "id": 8686175,
  "name": "William Exum v. The heirs of Benjamin Sheppard",
  "name_abbreviation": "Exum v. Heirs of Sheppard",
  "decision_date": "1811-07",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "86",
  "last_page": "87",
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      "cite": "2 Mur. 86"
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    {
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      "cite": "6 N.C. 86"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "William Exum v. The heirs of Benjamin Sheppard."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "By Tire Court.\nLet the demurrer be sustained.",
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        "author": "By Tire Court."
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    "head_matter": "William Exum v. The heirs of Benjamin Sheppard.\nFrom Craven.\nJudgment being given for an administrator, upon the plea of \u201c fully administered,\u201d a scire faoias issued to the heir, to shew cause why judgment of execution should not be had .against the real estate descended. The heir pleaded \u201c nothing by descent,\u201d and after-wards, pending the. suit, he pleaded, \u201c that since the last continuance, the lands had been sold to satisfy other executions.\u201d The Plaintiff demurred: and the demurrer was sustained.\nThe Plaintiff recovered against James Glasgow and Martha Jones Sheppard, administrators of the estate of Benjamin Sheppard, deceased, in the County Court of Greene, in an action of covenant, \u00a3 for damages and \u00a3 costs of suit; but the plea of \u201c fully administered\u2019* was found for the Defendants. The Plaintiff then sued out a writ of scire facias agaiiu,; the Defendants, suggesting that the. said Benjamin Sheppard died seised of a large real estate, which descended upon the Defendants, as heirs at Law, m<! praying for execution of the said damages and costs against the real estate to them descended. Upon the return of tins writ, the Defendants appeared and pleaded several pleas, amongst which were, \u201c no' such record, and nothing by descentand issues being joined upon said pleas, they were all found for the Plaintiff. The Defendants being dissatisfied with the verdict, appealed to the Superior Court for Newbern District. The transcript of the record was filed by the Defendants in due time, and the case stood upon the docket of the Superior Court, for trial upon the issues joined in the County Court, until January term, 1804, when the Defendant\u2019s counsel, as of course, and without motion to the Court, pleaded, \u201cthat since the last continuance, the lands have been sold to satisfy other executions issued from this Courtto which plea the Plaintiff demurred, and the Defendants joined in demurrer. At July term, tl;o issues joined between ibe parties in the County Court, were tried and (bund for the Plaintiff: and the issue in Law joined between the parties, was sent to this Court. And '"
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  "file_name": "0086-01",
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