STANLEY v. FOSTER

No. 665.

92 S.E.2d 925 (1956)

244 N.C. 201

James E. STANLEY and wife, Mary S. Stanley, Martha S. Lucas and her husband, Lloyd Lucas, Melba S. Paschal and husband, Elmer Paschal, Mamie S. Smith and husband, Elbert Smith, Marion S. Land and husband, Woodrow Land, Sarah E. Walker Stanley, Betsy Ann Somers and May Belle S. Cobb, Plaintiffs, v. Henry A. FOSTER, Administrator of the Estate of Ada H. Foster, deceased, Henry A. Foster, Commissioner, Henry A. Foster, Individually, J. L. Foster, A. H. Foster, Lillian Foster, Elizabeth Foster Taylor, James N. Taylor, Guardian ad litem for Elizabeth Foster Taylor, and J. L. Foster, Guardian ad litem for Lillian Foster, Defendants.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 23, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. E. Scarborough, Yanceyville, Wm. R. Dalton, Reidsville, W. R. Dalton, Jr., Burlington, for plaintiffs appellants.

Hunter K. Penn, Charles W. Campbell, Reidsville, for defendants appellees.


WINBORNE, Justice.

The sole assignment of error presented on this appeal is predicated upon exception to the judgment signed. In this connection, in so far as the appellants are concerned, the determinative question on which decision rests on this appeal is this: What estate, right, title or interest, in and to the 61-acre tract, if any, do they, as greatgrandchildren of James Somers, take under his will?

The answer is "Nothing". The 61-acre tract of land...

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