Hammer v. Brantley

This appeal is not complicated by the indefiniteness of the devise to Gennie Bunting. The bounds of her devise have been settled by the parties by an agreement of partition in which the 100 acres have been set apart to her by metes and bounds.

“It is established by repeated decisions of this Court that the rule in Shelley’s case is still recognized in this jurisdiction, and where the same obtains it does so as a rule of property without regard to the intent of the grantor or devisor. Jones v. Whichard, 163 N.C. 241; Price v. Griffin, 150 N.C. 523; Edgerton v. Aycock, 123 N.C. 134; Chamblee v.…