Supreme Court of North Carolina June 5, 1844 (Clement v. . Foster)

Ruffin, C. J.

As to the right which the defendantsset up upon the score of the state of the accounts between Foster and Clements and Armfield, by reason of the payment of debts by Foster, which the two latter took on themselves; that is a proper matter for an enquiry upon the reference tc ascertain the sum due to the plaintiff on the foot of the bond allotted to him in the division of the effects