STRICKLAND v. JACKSON

No. 95.

130 S.E.2d 22 (1963)

259 N.C. 81

Hannah Vester STRICKLAND and husband, Bobby Strickland, John Milton Vester and wife, Madeline Vester and Frank Lane Vester, v. H. P. JACKSON and wife, Annie S. Jackson.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 20, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam B. Underwood, Jr., Greenville, for plaintiffs-appellants.

James & Hite, by Kenneth G. Hite, Greenville, for defendants-appellees.


RODMAN, Justice.

The first question for decision is: What estate did the grantees named in the Tyson deed of 1905 take? Plaintiffs assert the children of M. H. Jackson and wife, Maggie, took vested remainders and upon the death of their mother, her one-fifth descended to her children, the plaintiffs. Defendants contend the estate which the children of M. H. Jackson and wife, Maggie, took was a contingent remainder vesting only in those who survived their parents....

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