IN MATTER OF LAST WILL & TESTAMENT

No. 262A03.

592 S.E.2d 688 (2004)

358 N.C. 143

In the Matter of the Purported LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF FRancis M. BARNES, dated November 22, 1989. and In the Matter of the Purported Last Will And Testament of Francis M. Barnes, Dated May 25, 1967.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bass, Bryant & Fanney, by John Walter Bryant and Eva C. Currin, Raleigh; and Batts, Batts & Bell, LLP, by Jeffrey A. Batts, Joseph L. Bell, Jr., and Wendy P. Wilson, for propounder-appellee; Poyner & Spruill, LLP, by Gregory S. Camp, Rocky Mount, for propounder-appellee Church of the Advent.

Gaylord, McNally, Strickland, Snyder & Holscher, L.L.P., by Danny D. McNally and Emma S. Holscher, for intestate-appellant Riley S. Corddry; Emanuel & Dunn, by Stephen A. Dunn; and Dunn and Dunn, by Raymond E. Dunn, Jr., for intestate-appellant Lucy Tull; and Browning & Hill, L.L.P., by Myron T. Hill, Jr., for intestate-appellant Diane Barnes Graue.

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Charles J. Murray, Special Deputy Attorney General, for other-appellant East Carolina University

The Blount Law Firm, P.A., by Marvin Blount, Jr., Ted Mackall, Jr., and Rebecca Cameron Blount, Greenville, for caveator-appellants.


PER CURIAM.

For the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion, we reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals.

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