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  "id": 8694698,
  "name": "R. L. SMITH and W. M. SMITH v. ANNIE NEAL and others",
  "name_abbreviation": "Smith v. Neal",
  "decision_date": "1875-06",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "472",
  "last_page": "473",
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      "cite": "73 N.C. 472"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "R. L. SMITH and W. M. SMITH v. ANNIE NEAL and others."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Settle, J.\nWilliam Smith intended to dispose of his whole estate by will.\nThere is nothing in the will or in the circumstances of the estate to induce ns to change the general rule.\nThe judgment of the Superior Court is affirmed.\nPer Curiam.\nJ udgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Settle, J. Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Shipp (& Bailey, for the appellants.",
      "J. B. Ilohe and Battle <& So?i, contra."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "R. L. SMITH and W. M. SMITH v. ANNIE NEAL and others.\nA devised as follows: \u201cI give to my two grandsons, M and R, one hundred acres of land, including where I now live,\u201d &c., \u201c and that my daughter P live where I now live for the space of ten years; and at the end of that time, the land and premises to belong to my two grandsons, or the heirs of IHeld, that after the expiration of ten years from the death of the testator, M and R, the children of I, who was dead, were entitled to the land.\nThis was a Civil aotioN in the nature of Ejectment, tried before Schenck, J. at Spring Term, 1875, of Rutherford Superior Court.\nThe plaintiffs claimed the land in controversy as devisees under the will of William Smith. It was agreed that the right of the plaintiffs to recover depended upon the construetion of the will, and that the\" Court should decide as to the construction.\nIt was in evidence that William Smith\u2019s real estate consisted of the tract of land on which he lived, containing about three hundred and fifty-three acres. The testator lived near the center of the tract. James T. Smith lived in the northern part of the tract and that Jeremiah W. Smith, the father of the plaintiffs lived in an unenclosed field, in the Southeast corner of the tract. Jeremiah Smith \u201c was leader of the crop\u201d in the lifetime of the testator, but the land was worked by all the family together. Polly Smith took possession of the house in which Jeremiah W. Smith lived, and remained in possession ten years, after which this action was brought.\nThe clause of the will, under which the plaintiffs claim reads as follows :\n\u201c I give to my two grand-sons, Mat-thew and Richard Smith one hundred acres of land including where I now live, joining the land I have given to my son J. S. Smith ; and that my daughter Polly Smith live where Jeremiah W. Smith now lives for the space of ten years, and at the end of that time the land and premises to belong to my two grand-sons or the heirs of J. W. Smith.\nThe Court being of the opinion that the plaintiffs were entitled to recover, an issue as to damages was submitted toa jury and a verdict rendered, assessing the damages at three hundred dollars. And the Court thereupon gave judgment for the plaintiffs, from which judgment the defendants appealed.\nShipp (& Bailey, for the appellants.\nJ. B. Ilohe and Battle <& So?i, contra."
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