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BATCHELDOR v. BOYD

No. 9130SC1285.

423 S.E.2d 810 (1992)

108 N.C. App. 275

Caroline BATCHELDOR, Tom Smith, James B. Smith, John B. Smith, Allen Smith, Marion C. Smith, and Harriet Smith Anisowicz, Plaintiffs, v. William Richard BOYD, Sr., T. Michael Jordan, Successor Administrator of the Estate of J.R. Boyd, Jr., Barbara Burgin, Tommy G. Boyd, Jr., Carolyn Clayton, Executrix of the Estate of Henry Clayton, and Robert M. Chafin and John Lyndon Chafin, Co-Executors of the Estate of Robert Chafin, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 15, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McLean & Dickson, P.A. by Russell L. McLean, III, Waynesville and Westall, Gray, Kimel & Connolly, P.A. by Jack W. Westall, Asheville, for plaintiffs.

Brown, Ward, Haynes, Griffin & Seago, P.A. by Randal Seago, Waynesville, for defendant William Richard Boyd, Sr.

COZORT, Judge.

This appeal is from an order permitting the exhumation of the corpse of J.R. Boyd, Jr., for the purposes of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing of tissue samples to aid in determining the paternity of defendant William Richard Boyd, Sr. We affirm.

On 17 January 1990, the Haywood County Clerk of Superior Court appointed William Richard Boyd, Sr., defendant herein, administrator of J.R. Boyd, Jr.'s estate. On 23 February 1990, Robert Chafin and...

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