King v. . Rhew
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil action, tried before Graves, J., at April Term, 1890, of the Superior Court of New Hanover County. The parties waived a jury trial, and agreed upon the following facts, upon which the Court rendered judgment for defendant, as set out in the record: The following facts are admitted: That title is out of the State, and plaintiffs claim under the deed made by Bryant Williams on the 25th day of April, 1863, to R. B. Wood, trustee.
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This was a civil action, tried before Graves, J., at April Term, 1890, of the Superior Court of New Hanover County. The parties waived a jury trial, and agreed upon the following facts, upon which the Court rendered judgment for defendant, as set out in the record: The following facts are admitted: That title is out of the State, and plaintiffs claim under the deed made by Bryant Williams on the 25th day of April, 1863, to R. B. Wood, trustee. Plaintiffs next introduced a deed, signed by Isaac W. King and wife Charlotte, to Ann Eliza Orrell, made 4th August, 1869, and mesne conveyances from…
1Opinion of the Court
Shepherd, J.:
The land in question was conveyed on the 25th of April, 1863, to one “Robert Wood, Jr., and his heirs and assigns,” in trust “ for the sole and separate use, occupation and enjoyment of Charlotte King during her natural life, and at her death to be equally divided between any children she may leave her surviving, born of her intermarriage with her present husband, share and share alike, and to be in no wise liable to be sold or taken for the debts of her said husband.” Charlotte King died in 1889, and the plaintiffs are the only children born of her intermarriage with Isaac W.…
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