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LOCKLEAR v. NIXON

No. COA97-329.

497 S.E.2d 310 (1998)

Leslie Woody LOCKLEAR, Collector of the Estate of Ronald Locklear, Plaintiff, v. Margie Hunt NIXON, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 17, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker & Boyan, P.L.L.C. by Walter W. Baker, Jr., and Jeffrey L. Mabe, Thomasville, for plaintiff-appellant.

Teague, Rotenstreich & Stanaland by Kenneth B. Rotenstreich, and Ian J. Drake, Greensboro, for defendant-appellee.

WYNN, Judge.

Under the venue provision of Chapter 28A, "all proceedings relating to the administration of the estate of a decedent" must be brought in the county where the decedent was domiciled at death. N.C.Gen.Stat. § 28A-3-1 (1996). In this case, Ronald Locklear died after being thrown from a vehicle driven by Margie Hunt Nixon. The collector of his estate, Leslie Locklear (his wife) brought a wrongful death action against Ms. Nixon in Guilford County—...

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