IN THE MATTER OF WILL

No. COA01-21.

559 S.E.2d 556 (2002)

In the Matter of the WILL OF Cornelius Winston ALLEN, Deceased.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 5, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Love & Love, P.A. by Jimmy L. Love, Sr., Sanford, for caveators-appellants.

Harrington, Ward, Gilleland & Winstead, L.L.P., by Eddie S. Winstead, III, Sanford, for propounders-appellees.


BIGGS, Judge.

Mr. Cornelius Allen (Mr. Allen), an elderly widower from Lee County, died on 2 December 1998. He had no living wife or children, and was succeeded by a brother, two sisters, and a nephew (caveators). Upon his death, a handwritten will was found among other papers in a wooden bowl on his kitchen counter.

The will had been witnessed by two of Mr. Allen's friends on 2 January 1991. It bequeathed to one caveator a car, to another his household possessions...

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