MATTER OF ESTATE OF OWENS

No. 9417SC171.

450 S.E.2d 2 (1994)

117 N.C. App. 118

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Robert OWENS, Deceased.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

November 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gardner, Gardner and Johnson by John C.W. Gardner, Mount Airy, for respondent-appellants.

Stover, Cromer & Bennett by Michael R. Bennett, King, for petitioner-appellee.


MARTIN, Judge.

Respondent co-executrices argue on appeal that Verlie Owens had, pursuant to G.S. § 30-2, six months from the date letters testamentary were issued to them to dissent from the will, regardless of her competency to do so, and that her attempt to dissent almost seventeen months after the will entered probate should have been denied according to the express wording of the statute. We disagree and affirm the order of the trial court.

G.S. ...

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