Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Stevenson

A. L. Stevenson died on 17 February, 1925, leaving a will which thereafter was duly admitted to probate in Forsyth County. He left surviving him a widow, now deceased, but no children. The plaintiff is the administrator of his estate, with the will annexed; the defendants are legatees and devisees or distributees and heirs at law of the *30testator and of bis deceased wife. The suit is prosecuted as an application to a court of chancery for the purpose of determining and identifying the beneficiaries described in the fifth item of the will. Freeman v. Cook, 41 N. C., 373; Alsbrook v. Reid, 89 N.…