PEELE v. FINCH

No. 46.

200 S.E.2d 635 (1973)

284 N.C. 375

Edna B. PEELE, widow v. Eugene FINCH et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 12, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vernon F. Daughtridge, Wilson, for respondent appellants.

Fields, Cooper & Henderson by Leon Henderson, Jr., Rocky Mount, for petitioner appellee.


LAKE, Justice.

At the death of the testator, Laura Brown Finch had no children and it could not be known whether she would have children. Consequently, the will of B. W. Brown devised the land in question to her for life with a contingent remainder to her children, if any, and an alternative contingent remainder in her brothers and sisters and the issue of those who predeceased her. Lawson v. Lawson, 267...

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