Fennell v. Foskey

Hill, Justice.

Defendants Mrs. Doris Thigpen Fennell and Mrs. Barbara C. Thigpen appeal from a directed verdict for the plaintiffs, Leona Foskey et al., finding title to a five acre tract of land to be in the.plaintiffs. The defendants’ motion for a directed verdict was denied.

In 1937, the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company owned a tract of land containing approximately forty-five acres (hereinafter referred to as the 45 acre tract). On June 22,1937, the insurance company executed a deed conveying five acres of the 45 acre tract to the trustees of the Wilkes Consolidated School of…