SOUTHERLAND v. POTTS

No. 237.

67 S.E.2d 51 (1951)

234 N.C. 268

SOUTHERLAND et al. v. POTTS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 10, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin C. Ipock, Goldsboro, for defendant-appellant.

Dees & Dees, Goldsboro, for plaintiffs-appellees.


DENNY, Justice.

We deem it unnecessary to discuss the legal effect of the deed from John Kornegay to Bryant Southerland and his wife, Martha C. Southerland, since regardless of its provisions, Martha C. Southerland became vested with a fee simple title thereto, subject only, in any event, to the life estates conveyed in the above deed, by virtue of the allotment to her of the identical lands described in the deed in the division of her father's estate.

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