Jefferson v. Jefferson

Stacy, O. J.,

dissenting: It was said in Triplett v. Williams, 149 N. C., 394, 63 S. E., 79, that “all conveyances of land executed since the passage of the Act (ch. 148, Laws 1879, now C. S., 991) are to be taken to be in fee simple, unless the intent of the grantor is plainly manifest in some part of the instrument to convey an estate of less dignity.”

Here, we have a deed with all of its operative provisions conveying an estate in fee simple. Whitley v. Arenson, ante, 121. Following the description of the land conveyed are these words: “This deed is conveyed to the said grantee to him his…