Opinion
Spring Term, 1799.
An administrator is not entitled to claim anything for loss of time and personal services, though he will be allowed his necessary expenditures.
In a collateral issue made up under the direction of the Court, between the heir and the administrator, the latter in his account against the estate had raised a charge for his trouble and services in performing the duties of an administrator. Upon the question whether such a charge was proper.
By the Act of 1789, cap. 23, sec. 2. The administrator shall retain in his hands no more of the intestate's estate than amounts to his necessary charges and disbursements, and such debts as he may legally pay within two years after the administration granted. For actual expenditures, therefore, he is entitled to an allowance, but not for loss of time and personal services. Act of 1799, cap. 22; 3 P. Wil., 249.
NOTE. See Clarke v. Cotton, 17 N.C. 51.
Cited: Parker v. Grant, 91 N.C. 343.