Whitfield v. Garris.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
AotioN by E. Gr. Whitfield and others against Ransom Garris and others, heard by Judge W. S. O’B. Robinson, at November Term, 1901, of the Superior Court of Wayne County. From a judgment for the defendants, the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtFurches, C. J.
This is an action of ejectment and involves the construction of the will of Lewis Whitfield. The will was written in 1848, and the testator died in 1850 at the advanced age of 90 years. He was a man of large real and personal estate without living children, but having a number of grandchildren.
In Item 15 of the will he disposes of the land in controversy as follows: “I give, devise and bequeath to my grandson, Franklin Whitfield (son of L. S. Whitfield, deceased), that part of my land lying on the north of Neuse River, between Walnut Greek and Bear Greek, in the counties of Wayne and Lenoir…
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