MATTER OF ESTATE OF FOSTER

No. 7930.

699 P.2d 638 (1985)

102 N.M. 707

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Ellis Loyd FOSTER, Deceased. Gladys PRICE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Carl C. FOSTER, Lois Rook, Kenneth N. Foster, Roy Moore, La Verta Scott, James N. Foster, Jr., and Edna Murdock, Respondents-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied May 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Watkins & Watkins, Carlsbad, Michael P. Watkins, Gallagher & Casados, P.C., Albuquerque, for petitioner-appellant.

K. Douglas Perrin, Jennings & Christy, Roswell, for respondents-appellees Carl C. Foster, Roy Moore, Lois Rook, La Verta Scott, Kenneth N. Foster and James N. Foster, Jr.

Jeffrey L. Bowman, Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley, Roswell, for respondent-appellee Edna Murdock.


OPINION

WOOD, Judge.

Ellis Loyd Foster (decedent) died July 13, 1983. The trial court denied probate of his alleged will and ruled that he died intestate. The trial court awarded attorney fees to respondents, who opposed probate of the alleged will. Price, the sister of decedent, had offered the alleged will for probate. Price appeals, contending (1) the alleged will should have been admitted to probate; (2) the...

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