IN RE LONG'S WILL

No. 602.

126 S.E.2d 313 (1962)

257 N.C. 598

In the Matter of the WILL of Matthew London LONG.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 10, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. F. McGougan, Jr., Tabor City, and Powell, Lee & Lee, Whiteville, for propounder-appellant.

Herring, Walton & Parker, Southport, for caveator-appellee.


SHARP, Justice.

The battleground of this case in the trial below was not the first issue; it was the second and third issues. All the evidence tended to show that the paper writing was executed in conformity with the legal requirements for the execution of a valid will. We must assume, therefore, that the jury's negative answer to the first issue indicated either confusion as to the law or disbelief of some of the uncontradicted evidence.

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