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EDMUNDSON v. MORTON

No. 333PA91.

420 S.E.2d 106 (1992)

332 N.C. 276

R. Gene EDMUNDSON, Executor, of the Estate of C. Julian Wilson (Deceased) v. Marguerite W. MORTON, Joe B. Morton, Edwin B. Wilson, W.W. Mason, L.L. Mason, Louise Tolley, Carolyn W. Jones, W.H. Stovall, James A. Howard, Robert W. Howard, Georgia Howard Pometto, John Howard, Gladys Sykes Wallace, Elizabeth D. Sykes and Nancy B. McKee.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 4, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cheshire, Parker and Butler by D. Michael Parker, Hillsborough, for defendants-appellants James A. Howard, Robert W. Howard, Georgia Howard Pometto, John Howard, Gladys Sykes Wallace, Elizabeth D. Sykes and Nancy B. McKee.

Perry, Kittrell, Blackburn & Blackburn by Charles F. Blackburn, Henderson and Charles M. White, III, Warrenton, for defendants-appellees Marguerite W. Morton and Joe B. Morton, Executors of the Estate of Marguerite W. Morton, Joe B. Morton, Edwin B. Wilson, W.W. Mason, L.L. Mason, Louise W. Tolley and Carolyn W. Jones.

LAKE, Justice.

This case presents essentially a question of interpretation of a will, involving accessions (accretions) to certain bequeathed property and whether the testator intended the bequest directly in question to be general or specific in nature.

The bequest directly in question was of certain stocks and bonds inherited by testator from his wife and bequeathed by him as a collective unit. The essence of the question is the determination of the proper...

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