Gray v. Williams.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by John and Margaret Gray against Beulah Williams and others, heard by Judge George H. Brown and a jury, at September Term, 1901, of the Superior Court of CamdeN County. From a verdict for the plaintiffs, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
The plaintiffs in this action seek to have determined, under the authority of Chapter 6 of the Acts of 1893, an adverse claim to their lands set up by the defendants. It is admitted by the defendants that up to the time of the death of her first husband, L. B. Sanderlin, the plaintiff Margaret Gray owned the land in fee simple. Sanderlin died in 1890, -leaving a last will and testament, under which the defendants Beulah Williams and Nevada Burgess claim a remainder in fee to the land after the life estate of Mrs. Gray, the basis, of the claim being the alleged election on Mrs. Gray’s part to…
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