Board of Education v. . Johnston

The right of succession by escheat to all property, when there is no wife or husband or parties entitled to inherit or take under the statutes of descent and distribution, has been conferred upon the University of North Carolina by the State Constitution, Art. IX, sec. 7, and extended by several statutes which, are now G. S., 116-20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 (C. S., 5784, 5784 [a], 5785, 5786, 5786 [1] and 5786 [2]). In re Neal, 182 N. C., 405, 109 S. E., 70.

Prior to the enactment of chapter 256, Public Laws of 1935, G. S., 29-1, Rule 10 (C. S., 1654, Rule 10), when an illegitimate child died…