MOORE v. LANGSTON

No. 456.

111 S.E.2d 627 (1959)

251 N.C. 439

Helen B. MOORE v. Allen LANGSTON, Executor of the Estate of Grace B. Neal, Deceased; Elizabeth Neal Franklin and husband, Worth H. Franklin; and Natalie Neal Blomquist and husband, George B. Blomquist.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 16, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clem B. Holding, Harris, Poe & Cheshire, by W. C. Harris, Jr., Raleigh, for plaintiff, appellee.

Allen Langston, Fletcher & Lake, by I. Beverly Lake, Raleigh, for defendants, appellants.


HIGGINS, Justice.

In passing on this appeal, it becomes necessary to determine whether the first codicil was intended merely as the expression of a wish or advice to the two daughters, or whether it constituted a valid and enforceable bequest to the plaintiff.

At the date of the first codicil the testatrix was receiving from the two rental properties approximately $2,000 per month. She conveyed these properties to the corporation which she helped to organize...

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