LANGSTON v. BARFIELD

No. 236.

58 S.E.2d 361 (1950)

231 N.C. 594

LANGSTON et al. v. BARFIELD.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 22, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hooks & Mitchiner, Smithfield, and William R. Britt, Smithfield, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Wellons, Martin & Wellons, Smithfield, for defendant, appellant.


STACY, Chief Justice.

The immediate question for decision is whether the defendant must account to the plaintiffs for a portion of the proceeds derived from the sale of the timber on one of the tracts of land. The trial court answered in the affirmative. We are inclined to a different view.

In the first place, Allie Barfield who was most assuredly the special object of the testator's bounty, is devised a life estate in the lands in question with certain conditions...

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