Garner v. . Phillips

By the judgment appealed from the youthful defendant Thomas Lee Phillips has been denied beneficial inheritance from his deceased parents for the reason that it ivas found he had murdered both his father and his mother. Upon reason and authority we think the case has been correctly determined.

It is a basic principle of law and equity that no man shall be permitted to take advantage of his own wrong, or acquire property as the result of his own crime. Bryant v. Bryant, 193 N. C., 372, 137 S. E., 188; Parker v. Potter, 200 N. C., 348, 157 S. E., 68; Pearson v. Stores Corp.. 219 N. C., 717…