Wright v. . Harris
Supreme Court of North Carolina
AotioN to recover land, heard before Hoke, J., at November Term, 1894, of Person Superior Court, on pleadings and facts admitted, a jury trial being waived. The facts ppear in the judgment of his Honor and in-the opinion of Associate Justice MontgoMery. Upon the facts and pleadings the plaintiff requested his Honor to hold that in the will of Jas.
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AotioN to recover land, heard before Hoke, J., at November Term, 1894, of Person Superior Court, on pleadings and facts admitted, a jury trial being waived. The facts ppear in the judgment of his Honor and in-the opinion of Associate Justice MontgoMery. Upon the facts and pleadings the plaintiff requested his Honor to hold that in the will of Jas. H. Harris no title, interest or estate was vested in the defendant, Jesse Harris ; that the attempted devise to the defendant was void for uncertainty in the property described; that the devise to Jesse Harris, the defendant, was not imperative or…
1Opinion of the Court
MONTGOMERY, J.:
The defendant, Jesse Harris, was a former slave of the testator, and the latter, in his will and testament, bore witness to the old servant’s character and devotion, in requesting him to remain with his (testator’s) widow, .until after her death. There are services and kindnesses which these old family servants can and do render to their former owners which none other can, or will render, and the testator understood this as no one else can who never occupied such a relation. The widow survived her husband some years, and when the en’d came to her on the 23rd of December, 1894,…
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