LASSITER v. TOWN OF OXFORD

No. 7029.

234 F.2d 217 (1956)

Robert G. LASSITER and Margaret C. Lassiter, his wife, and B. L. Simmons and Katherine L. Simmons, his wife, Appellants, v. TOWN OF OXFORD and Oxford Golf Association, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. P. Upchurch, Raleigh, N. C. (Murray Allen, Raleigh, N. C., on the brief), for appellants.

T. S. Royster and Hugh M. Currin, Oxford, N. C. (B. S. Royster, Jr., and Royster & Royster, Oxford, N. C., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought in the District Court by certain non-residents of North Carolina to recover possession of a tract of forty (40) acres of land in or near the Town of Oxford, North Carolina, which the plaintiffs conveyed to the town by deed in February 1934, to have and to hold so long as the town should keep and maintain it as a golf course; but if the town should cease to maintain and use it for this purpose, then it should revert to the...

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