73 N.C. App. 316 - Ferguson v. Croom’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “G.S. 29-8 creates a mandatory plan for disposing of a decedent’s property which does not pass by will. It directs that the property pass by intestate succession without regard to the intent expressed by a testator in a will. The statute, which was adopted in 1959, was a codification of our common law. See Dunlap v. Ingram, 57 N.C. 178 (4 Jones Eq.) (1858) (where our Supreme Court held that property not disposed of by will passes as directed by the law regardless of attempts by the testator to disinherit the lawful takers).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tarlton v. Stidham