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      "MARGARET RHEW TILLMAN et al. v. LOU BETTIE O\u2019BRIANT et al."
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        "text": "Stacy, C. J.\nOn tbe bearing, tbe question in difference was made to depend on tbe construction of tbe following clause in tbe will of W. D. Yarboro, late of Person County, tbis State:\n\u201cItem 3. I direct tbat my \u2018Will Clayton Place\u2019 . . . shall be sold and tbe proceeds divided equally between Maggie Rbew\u2019s children and Lou Bettie O\u2019Briant and Dewey Yarboro.\u201d\nTbe case states tbat Maggie Rbew was a deceased daughter of tbe testator; tbe plaintiffs in interest are her seven children. Lou Bettie O\u2019Briant is tbe only daughter of another deceased daughter of tbe testator; and Dewey Yarboro was treated as bis foster son. Dewey Yarboro has assigned all of bis interest to Lou Bettie O\u2019Briant.\nTbe \u201cWill Clayton Place\u201d has been sold, and tbe question for decision is whether tbe proceeds arising therefrom shall be divided per capita or per stirpes under Item 3 above. Tbe trial court answered per capita, and we approve.\nTbe pertinent authorities are assembled in Burton v. Cahill, 192 N. C., 505, 135 S. E., 332, and Ex parte Brogden, 180 N. C., 157, 104 S. E., 177, and we are content to rest our present decision on what was said in these cases.\nTbe general rule is, tbat an equal division among designated legatees means a per capita distribution, unless a contrary intent appear. Ex parte Brogden, supra; Waller v. Forsythe, 62 N. C., 353; Harris v. Philpot, 40 N. C., 324; and Bryant v. Scott, 21 N. C., 155.\nThe bequest here is to Maggie Rhew\u2019s seven children and two others, the words \u201cMaggie Rhew\u2019s children\u201d being descriptive of the first seven of the nine named legatees. Ex parte Brogden, supra. This is the meaning usually ascribed to such language, and as said by Clark, C. J., in Leggett v. Simpson, 176 N. C., 3, 96 S. E., 638 : \u201cThere is nothing in the will which impairs the usual rule of construction that where a devise is to a class collectively, and not by name to various devisees in the class, all the members of the class take per capita and not per stirpes.\"\nAffirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Graham & Eslcridge for plaintiffs, appellees.",
      "Burns \u2022& Burns for defendants, Lou Bettie O\u2019Briant and Hubert O'Briant, appellants."
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    "head_matter": "MARGARET RHEW TILLMAN et al. v. LOU BETTIE O\u2019BRIANT et al.\n(Filed 7 January, 1942.)\nwms \u00a7 34c\u2014\nAn item of a will directing that certain realty be sold \u201cand the proceeds divided equally between\u201d the children of a deceased daughter (seven in number), the only daughter of another deceased daughter by name, and another, who was treated by testator as his foster son, is Held to require the division of the proceeds among the beneficiaries per capita and not per stirpes under the general rule that an equal division among designated legatees means a per capita distribution, unless a contrary intent appear.\nAppeal by defendants from Grady, Emergency Judge, at October Term, 1941, of PeesoN.\nCivil action for construction of will.\nFrom judgment for plaintiffs, tbe defendants appeal, assigning error.\nGraham & Eslcridge for plaintiffs, appellees.\nBurns \u2022& Burns for defendants, Lou Bettie O\u2019Briant and Hubert O'Briant, appellants."
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