Supreme Court of North Carolina May 21, 1958, 594 (Bennett v. Cain)

Rodman, J.

Vernelle B. Bennett (hereafter referred to as plaintiff) was adopted for life by Minnie Cain Beard and husband by decree of the Superior Court of Cumberland County on 13 February 1923. Mrs. Beard died 22 July 1955. She had no natural descendants. Plaintiff was her only adopted child.

Geddie F. Cain, a brother of Mrs. Beard, died intestate in Bladen County in June 1956. O. L.