Bullock v. Bullock
Supreme Court of North Carolina
1Opinion of the CourtDeNNY, J.
The primary question to be determined on this appeal is whether or not it was the intent of the testator to include any child or children who might be adopted by any one or more of his sons named in Item 3 of his last will and testament, as ultimate taker or takers of a fee simple estate thereunder.
If the testator had devised his 106-acre farm to his four sons named in Item 3 of his last will and testament, during the term of their natural lives, to' be equally divided among them, and after their death to their children in fee simple, and if any one or more of them died without children then…
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