Page v. . Foust
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Special PROCEEDING for dower, commenced before the clerk and beard on appeal at Spring Term, 1883, of ROWAN Superior Court, before Graves, J. The controversy between the parties arose upon the construction of the will of Dempsey Page, deceased, which is set out in the opinion of this court. The ruling of the judge in the court below was in favor of the plaintiff, and front the judgment rendered the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The plaintiff, the widow of John A. Page, who died intestate and without issue, brings this suit against the feme defendants, his sisters and heirs-at-law, and their husbands to procure'an assignment of dower in the land described in her petition, whereof she alleges the intestate was seized and possessed of an estate in fee.
The defendants resist the plaintiff’s claim, and say that the intestate derived title to the land under the will of his father, Dempsey Page, made in 1879, by the provisions of which an estate for life only was devised to the said intestate, if he died without issue, with…
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