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PRIDGEN v. TYSON

No. 94.

66 S.E.2d 682 (1951)

234 N.C. 199

PRIDGEN v. TYSON et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 26, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. B. Moss, Spring Hope, and Claude C. Abernathy, Nashville, for defendants, appellants.

Lucas & Rand and Z. Hardy Rose, all of Wilson, for plaintiff, appellee.

DENNY, Justice.

It is conceded that the plaintiff, Thomas W. Pridgen, took only a life estate in the devised premises, under the will of Thomas M. Tyson, and that all persons claiming any interest in the estate are parties to the action. The defendants contend, however, that the male children of the testator took only a contingent interest conditioned upon their surviving Thomas W. Pridgen, the plaintiff, and that in order to ascertain the ultimate takers under the...

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