In Re Will of Thompson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by respondents from Adams, J., at the Fall Term, 1919, of MECKLENBURG. This is a proceeding to caveat a will. J. Alexander Thompson was formerly the owner of the land, purporting to be devised by said will, a part of which, claimed by the caveators, is located in Union County. The said Thompson died in Mecklenburg County in 1836, and as caveators allege, without leaving a will, and thereafter the caveators bought the land in Union County from his heirs.
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Appeal by respondents from Adams, J., at the Fall Term, 1919, of MECKLENBURG. This is a proceeding to caveat a will. J. Alexander Thompson was formerly the owner of the land, purporting to be devised by said will, a part of which, claimed by the caveators, is located in Union County. The said Thompson died in Mecklenburg County in 1836, and as caveators allege, without leaving a will, and thereafter the caveators bought the land in Union County from his heirs. In 1912, seventy-five years after the death of J. Alexander Thompson, a paper-writing purporting to be his will, was produced and was…
1Opinion of the CourtAixeN, J.
After the paper-writing, purporting to be the will of Thompson, was probated in common form in Mecklenburg County, the purchasers from the heirs of Thompson, now the caveators, commenced an action in Union County against those named as devisees in said paper, now the propounders, in which they alleged that the said Thompson did not leave a will, and asked that said paper and the probate thereof be set aside as a cloud on their title. The defendants filed a demurrer to the complaint, and it was held in this Court, upon appeal from a judgment overruling the demurrer, that the action could not…
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