KING v. RICHARDSON

No. 128 G-Civil.

46 F.Supp. 510 (1942)

KING et al. v. RICHARDSON et al.

District Court, M. D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division.

July 20, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brooks, McLendon & Holderness and R. R. King, Sr., all of Greensboro, N. C., and Charles G. Rose, of Fayetteville, N. C., for plaintiffs.

Clifford Frazier, R. M. Robinson, Huger S. King, and R. R. King, Jr., all of Greensboro, N. C., for defendants.


HAYES, District Judge.

This unfortunate litigation finds its origin in the divergent interpretations by eminent lawyers of North Carolina of Item V of the last will and testament of the late Lunsford Richardson. He was the founder of Vick Chemical Company. When his will was written in 1917, he and his sons Smith and Lunsford, Jr., were conducting the business as a partnership in which he owned 51%. Before his death in 1919, the business was incorporated but the stock...

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