Dawson v. . Wood
Supreme Court of North Carolina
CONTROVERSY without action, from Lenoir, submitted on ease agreed, and decided by Allen, J., resident judge of the Sixth District, on 8 February, 1919. Plaintiff, under a decree of the court, in a cause, duly constituted, of Laura A. Miller et dl. v. Julia B. Faulkner et al., and as commissioner in the cause, having contracted to sell the land, the subject-matter of said suit, to defendant, D. E. Wood, at the price of $33,000, and the payment of certain assessments for…
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CONTROVERSY without action, from Lenoir, submitted on ease agreed, and decided by Allen, J., resident judge of the Sixth District, on 8 February, 1919. Plaintiff, under a decree of the court, in a cause, duly constituted, of Laura A. Miller et dl. v. Julia B. Faulkner et al., and as commissioner in the cause, having contracted to sell the land, the subject-matter of said suit, to defendant, D. E. Wood, at the price of $33,000, and the payment of certain assessments for paving, etc., which said sale was fully approved, etc., the said purchaser, on demand made, declines to take the-property or…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
From the facts, properly presented, it appears that the real estate in question belonged to one Richard E. Green, who has died, making disposition of the same by his last will and testament, as follows:
“Item IV. I give and bequeath to my wife, Eliza B. Green, my house and lot in the town of Kinston, N. C., in which I now reside, to go with all my household and kitchen furniture and all other improvements thereto belonging, to have and to hold during her natural life, and at her death to go to my daughter, Laura A. Green, to have and to hold during her natural life, and at her death to her…
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