Central Bank & Trust Co. v. Board of Commissioners

J. W. Higgins died in Yancey County, on or about 2 April, 1923. He left a large estate, consisting of both, real and personal property. A controversy arose, with respect to this estate, between bis heirs at law, of the one part, and the Children’s Home, a corporation engaged in conducting a home for children under the auspices of the Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Rutherford College, Inc., and Thomas E. Higgins, of the other part. The heirs at law contended that said J. W. Higgins had died intestate, and procured the appointment of an administrator…