GENERAL RULE

If a plaintiff die during the pendency of a suit, and his executors do not apply to carry it on within two terms after his death computing from the day of his death, and not from the suggestion entered by the defendant, the cause will abate, and the defendant be discharged from further attendance.

NOTE. — See Anonymous, 3 N.C. 66.

Cited: Hobbs v. Bush, 19 N.C. 511; McLaughlin v. Neill, 25 N.C. 295.

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