Middleton v. . Rigsbee
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil aotioN to sell land for improvement and reinvestment, under sec. 1590, Revisal, heard on demurrer to the complaint before Stacy, J., at November Term, 1919, of Duuham. There was judgment overruling the demurrer, and defendant excepted and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
On matters more directly relevant to the inquiry the complaint alleges tbat under the will of ber deceased father, Atlas M. Rigs-bee, the feme plaintiff is the owner of a life estate in quite a number of lots in the city of Durham, improved and unimproved, with remainder to ber children who may be living at the time of ber death with ulterior limitations over to trustees on certain contingencies set forth in said will. That the present living children of feme plaintiff and all other ultimate takers who are known have been made parties defendant, and all who are infants or cannot now be…
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