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STRIGAS v. DURHAM LIFE INS. CO.

No. 665.

73 S.E.2d 788 (1953)

236 N.C. 734

STRIGAS et al. v. DURHAM LIFE INS. CO.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 6, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hines & Boren and Jordan & Wright, Greensboro, for plaintiffs-appellants.

I. O. Brady, Raleigh, and Hudgins & Adams, Greensboro, for defendant-appellee.

DENNY, Justice.

Where an instrument is wholly in writing and the intention of the writer must be ascertained from the document itself, the intention of the writer as well as the effect of that "Intention is a question of law. Young v. Jeffreys, 20 N.C. 357; Spragins v. White, 108 N.C. 449, 13 S.E. 171; Silver Val. Mining Co. v. North Carolina Smelting Co., 122 N.C. 542, 29 S.E. 940; Wilson & Co. v. Levi Cotton Mills...

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