IN RE ESTATE OF PICKELSIMER

No. COA14-1192.

776 S.E.2d 216 (2015)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Charles W. PICKELSIMER, Jr.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 18, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Raleigh, by Tobias S. Hampson and K. Edward Greene , for caveator-appellants.

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte, by Chip Holmes and Jessica C. Dixon , for propounder-appellee Brevard College.

Long Parker Warren Anderson & Payne, P.A., Asheville, by Robert B. Long, Jr., Esq. , and Philip S. Anderson, Esq. , for propounder-appellee David Albertson, Executor of the estate of Charles W. Pickelsimer, Jr.

Roberts & Stevens, P.A., by Phillip Jackson, Esq. , Marion, for propounder-appellee Transylvania Community Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Transylvania Regional Hospital.

Wishart Norris Henninger & Pittman, Charlotte, by Robert Wishart, Esq. , and Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, by June Allison, Esq. , Charlotte, for propounder-appellee Betty McCrary.

Ramsey & Pratt, P.A., Brevard, by Michael K. Pratt , for Shelter Available for Family Emergency (SAFE), Inc., of Transylvania County, did not file a brief on appeal.


Where caveators cannot establish prejudice as a result of the trial court's ruling excluding certain testimony, we find no prejudicial error. Where propounders, caveators, and the trial court all acknowledged during trial that propounders' "Last Will and Testament of Charles W. Pickelsimer...

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