KEENER v. KORN

No. 7925SC680.

264 S.E.2d 829 (1980)

Gaither M. KEENER, Jr., Ora Marie Bost Keener, Petitioners, v. Talmage Rowe KORN & Wife, Maggie Korn; Dolly Edith Korn Pope & Husband, Fred Pope; William Toledo Korn, Jr. & Wife, Margaret Korn; Queda Virginia Korn Laney & Husband, Fred Laney; Tory Dale Korn & Wife, Raynell M. Korn; Avis Louise Korn (Single); W. T. Korn, Sr. (Widower); Grace Dare Bost Barringer & Husband, Joe Barringer; Marilyn Lucille Bost Turner & Husband, J. T. Turner, Sr.; Julia Catherine Hoyle Peacock & Husband, Vernon E. Peacock; Georgia Meldona Hoyle Wright (Widow); Mary Jane Hoyle Powell & Husband, Lavern T. Powell; Johnsie May Bost McKee (Divorced); Ernest William Bost & Wife, Bernice Bost; Joseph Harbin Bost & Wife, Floy Bost; Catherine E. Bost Abernathy (Widow); Gaither M. (Donald) Keener, Sr.; Wanda Keener Bost (Widow); Alva Leona Bost (Single); Virginia Coleen Bost McIntyre; Betty Ellen Bost (Single); Jerold Monroe Bost & Wife, Willi Jean Bost; Dewey Tate Bost & Wife, Gloria Jean Bost; Clyde Bandy Bost & Wife, Jeanette E. Bost; Carol Evelyn Bost Glover (Divorced); Josephine Alice Bost Jackson & Husband, Lawrence Franklin Jackson; Robert Stewart Bost & Wife, Ann L. Bost, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Ferree by George G. Cunningham, Wilkesboro, and Gaither M. Keener Jr., North Wilkesboro, for petitioners-appellants.

Williams, Pannell & Lovekin by Richard A. Williams and Richard A. Williams Jr., Lefler, Gordon & Waddell by Robert A. Mullinax, and Gaither & Wood by Allen W. Wood III, Newton, for respondents-appellees.


HILL, Judge.

Petitioners argue in their first assignment of error that the trial court erred by determining that Wanda Keener Bost owned a life estate in the locus in quo and by failing to determine correctly the respective interests of the parties in said property. Petitioners contend that the will creates a fee simple estate in the testator's children with each child's share defeasible if that child predeceases testator's widow without having conveyed the...

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