Crawford v. . Wearn
This text of 20 S.E. 724 (Crawford v. . Wearn) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of North Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
After a careful examination of this ease, we have arrived at the conclusion that the rule in Shelley’s case does not apply, and that L. W. Crawford takes but a life estate in the property in question. Such seems the intention of the testator from the context of the will, and this intention, it is well settled, must prevail over technical language, when *542 such language is qualified by superadded words. We are also of the opinion that the power to “ invest or use ” all of the property, in view of other expressions in the will, authorizes a sale of the same by the life tenant, and on this ground, the judgment is affirmed. Affirmed.
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