MAST v. BLACKBURN

No. 315.

102 S.E.2d 812 (1958)

248 N.C. 231

C. L. MAST, M. W. Setzer, Earl Ellis and Fritz Lovins, Trustees Under a Deed To Trustees of The Happy Valley Gospel Church, v. W. S. BLACKBURN, Mrs. Zora Blackburn, P. G. McGee, Paul Blackburn, Willie Miller, R. A. Miller, and Verna M. Fields.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hal B. Adams, Lenoir, for plaintiffs-appellees.

L. H. Wall, Lenoir, for defendants-appellants.


DENNY, Justice.

It would seem that this appeal requires the determination of two questions: (1) Did the use of the words, "unto them the said William Davenport and Elijah Coffey, in trust (for the purposes above mentioned), their heirs and assigns forever," appearing in the habendum of the deed clothe Edmund M. Jones, the sole heir of William Davenport, one of the trustees in the Reuben Coffey deed, with power to convey a good title to the premises involved? (2) Did...

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