Tate v. . Amos

The question of law -involved in this case is whether or not Grace Darling Winend Hendrick acquired a fee-simple title to the lot in controversy, under the will of S. M. Farabee, in words as follows: "To Grace Darling Winend Hendrick I give the lot and house on North Main Street, No. 527, that she now occupies, or to her children, and all my wearing clothes and bed clothes if she wishes them.” We think so.

In Ellington v. Trust Co., 196 N. C., p. 755, the law is thus stated: “The guiding star in the interpretation of wills, to which all rules must bend, unless contrary to some rule of law or…