MATTER OF ESTATE OF MORRELL

No. 929SC188.

428 S.E.2d 697 (1993)

109 N.C. App. 676

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Cleopatra Walker MORRELL, deceased; Mona Lea Morrell Bryant and L.H. Mount, Co-Executors, Petitioners. David Butt, Rick N. Miller, Marsha Morrell, N.C. Department of Revenue, Andrew P. Collins, Gwyn R. Parsons, William B. Crews, Jr., Ronald L. O'Connell, Lois C. O'Connell, W. Neil Farfour, Mona Lea Morrell Bryant, Mary Millicent Morrell Moats, Gerald Don Nelson Bryant, III, William Woodland Morrell Bryant, Mona Elizabeth Lea Bryant, William Lester Morrell, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 20, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maxwell & Hutson, P.A. by James H. Hughes and Lauren M. Mikulka, Durham, for petitioners-appellees.

Charles E. Clement, Boone, for respondent-appellant Gwyn R. Parsons.

Miller and Moseley by Paul E. Miller, Jr., Boone, for respondents-appellants David Butt and Rick N. Miller.


COZORT, Judge.

Petitioners, co-executors of the estate of Cleopatra Walker Morrell, filed this interpleader action on 27 June 1991 to determine the proper distribution of the beneficial interest of beneficiary William L. Morrell. On 10 October 1991, the trial court filed an order allowing the petitioners to reduce the beneficial interest of William L. Morrell by the indebtedness he owed to the estate. Respondents appeal. We affirm. The facts follow.

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