Wooten v. Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Edward Wooten and wife Eliza Wooten, R. B. Jewett, W. L. Jewett, Stephen Jewetifc, Henry B. Jew-ett and R. D. Jewett against the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company, heard by Judge George H. Brown, at .January Term, 1900, of New Hanover Superior Oour't. Erom a judgment for plaintiffs, -tibe defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMoNtgomjery, J.
This ease was heard in the Count below upon an agreed state of facts — those material to the decision of the ease being as follows: Eliza Claudia Bradley died in 1854, leaving a last will and testament in which she bequeathed to her son, Charles W. Bradley, 20 shares of capital stock of the Wilmington and Baleigh Railroad Company (now lire Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Co.), registered in her own name on the stock, ledger of the company, to be held by him in trust for the sole and separate benefit of the testaitorix’s daughter, Lucy B. Jewett, during’ her life^ and upon her death to the use…
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