ENTWISTLE v. COVINGTON

No. 461.

108 S.E.2d 603 (1959)

250 N.C. 315

William Harry ENTWISTLE, George P. Entwistle, Mary Entwistle Thompson, and John W. C. Entwistle, v. John W. COVINGTON, Sr., Emma McCullen Covington, and John W. Covington, Sr., Executor of the Will of Leake S. Covington.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 20, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones & Jones, Page & Page, Harvey C. Carroll, Rockingham, for defendants-appellants.

Leath & Blount, Rockingham, Blakeney & Alexander, Charlotte, for plaintiffs-appellees.


DENNY, Justice.

All the assignments of error of the appellants involve the same primary question, which is: Where a residuary clause in testator's will provides, "The residue of my estate anything and everything of value I will and bequeath to my sisters May S. Faith L. & Elna G. Covington, or to those who reside at our homeplace, Glenwood. at the time of my death," and the three named sisters predeceased the testator, was it the intention of the testator that...

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