Revis v. Murphy
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN tried before Adams, J., at October Term, 1916, of BuNCOMBE. Tbis is a controversy submitted without action upon an agreed statement of facts.
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Civil actioN tried before Adams, J., at October Term, 1916, of BuNCOMBE. Tbis is a controversy submitted without action upon an agreed statement of facts. “It is' agreed between F. H. Revis and wife, Awie Revis, tbe plaintiffs above named, and J. D. Murpby, the defendant above named, as follows: “1. That on 19 September, 1916, a contract was duly made and entered into between the plaintiffs and the defendant, by the terms of which the plaintiffs were to execute and deliver to the defendant a deed conveying to him in fee simple the tract of land described in the deed hereinafter set forth. “2.…
1Opinion of the Court
Valsee, J.,
after stating the case: The single question in this case is whether Awie Eevis took a fee-simple estate tinder the deed off J". S. T. Fail’d and wife to her. The limitation is to Awie Eevis, “her heirs by the body of F. H. Eevis.” This was at one time a fee tail special (2 Elk. Com., 113, 114), but by our statute of 1784 (Eevisal, see. 1578) it was converted into a fee-simple absolute. The form of the limitation here and the one in Jones v. Ragsdale, 141 N. c., 201, are the same. It was held in the latter ease that the wife, Zilphia S. Jones, acquired a fee simple under and by…
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