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  "name": "RACHEL E. BLACK, Administratrix, v. RUTH TREMBLY",
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      "RACHEL E. BLACK, Administratrix, v. RUTH TREMBLY."
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        "text": "Stacy, C. J.\nIt would seem that under the decision in Jordan v. Sigmon, 194 N. C., 707, 140 S. E., 620, the defendant is in no position to complain at the judgment entered below. Compare Speight v. Speight, 208 N. C., 132, 179 S. E., 461.\nThe eases cited by appellant, Dixon v. Hooker, 199 N. C., 673, 155 S. E., 567, and Allen v. Smith, 183 N. C., 222, 111 S. E., 11, were given due weight by the trial court. They are not controlling on the facts presently presented.\nAffirmed.",
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      "Thomas H. Franks for plaintiff.",
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    "head_matter": "RACHEL E. BLACK, Administratrix, v. RUTH TREMBLY.\n(Filed 18 March, 1936.)\nWills E b \u2014 Judgment that legatee of life estate in personalty might use part of corpus held without error on remainderman\u2019s appeal.\nJudgment that a bequest of personalty to testator\u2019s wife, \u201cto be used as she sees fit,\u201d and at her death to go to testator\u2019s daughter if living, and if not, to testator\u2019s brother and sisters, gave the wife the right to use not only the income, but also so much of the principal thereof as should be necessary for her comfort and support, is held without error upon the appeal of the daughter. As to whether a limitation over after a life estate may be created in personalty by executory devise, queere?\nAppeal by defendant from Harding, J., at November Term, 1935, of Henderson.\nCivil action, brought by administratrix c. t. a. of the estate of E. R. Black, to obtain a construction of the testator\u2019s will and for guidance in the discharge of her duties.\nThe only clause in the will submitted for construction is as follows:\n\u201cThat I will all of my personal and real estate to my wife, Rachel E. Black, to be used as she sees fit, and at the expiration of her life to go to my\u2019 daughter Ruth, if she is living, if she is not living, to go to my sisters and brother.\u201d\nThe defendant is the daughter of the testator mentioned in the will.\nThe testator also left him surviving one brother and three sisters.\nThe estate is not large; it consists of personal property; the major portion of which is common stocks of various corporations. There is no real estate.\nThe trial court being of opinion \u201cthe testator intended by the said will that his widow should have the right to hold the said personal property and to use, not only the income, but also so much of the principal or corpus thereof as might be necessary for her comfort and support,\u201d entered judgment accordingly, from which the defendant appeals, assigning error.\nThomas H. Franks for plaintiff.\nCharles French Toms, Sr., for defendant."
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