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KENNEDY v. KENNEDY

No. 390.

72 S.E.2d 869 (1952)

236 N.C. 419

KENNEDY et al. v. KENNEDY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 5, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell J. Lanier, Beulaville, and Grady Mercer, Kenansville, for petitioners appellants.

Henry L. Stevens, III, and E. Walker Stevens, Warsaw, for defendant appellee.

VALENTINE, Justice.

Does the language appearing at the end of the description in each of the three deeds under which Hobart A. Kennedy took title to the lands in question have the effect of creating life estates in the grantors named in said deeds? This question must be answered in the negative.

The recent case of Artis v. Artis, 228 N.C. 754, 47 S.E.2d 228, furnishes abundant authority for the position here taken.

In the deeds now under consideration...

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