LAWSON v. LAWSON

No. 851.

148 S.E.2d 546 (1966)

267 N.C. 643

J. Roscoe LAWSON and wife, Elizabeth M. Lawson, Ina Rose Lawson Denning and husband, Bruce Denning, J. Alva Lawson and wife, Lizzie B. Lawson, and Sadie Lawson Long, Widow, Petitioners, v. William LAWSON and wife, Betty Jan Lawson, Leo Harold Lawson, unmarried, Kenneth Bryan Lawson and wife, Mrs. Kenneth Bryan Lawson, Bonnie Jewel Lawson, unmarried, and Barbara Ann Lawson West and husband Hubert West, Respondents.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 16, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. & W. Earl Britt, Fairmont, for petitioners appellees.

Walter Clark, Jr., Greensboro, for respondents appellants.


SHARP, Justice.

Respondents contend that at the death of the testator, J. Rad Lawson, the six whole brothers and sisters of the life tenant, all of whom were then living, took a vested remainder in the land, and that they, as children of the two whole brothers who predeceased Opal Lawson Long, inherited their interest. The law, however, is otherwise.

This case presents a typical example of a contingent remainder.

"`A devises to B for...

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