Sauls v. ESTATE OF NORMA F. AVANT

Webb, Judge.

Norma Faye Avant died testate at the age of twenty-four on October 9, 1972. For most of her life she suffered from a congenital condition known as agammaglobulinemia, a rare blood disease which causes the inability to develop immunity to infection. As a result she constantly suffered from lung, ear and sinus infections, was in and out of the hospital, and was overprotected and coddled by her parents. In 1959 when she was ten, Norma Faye’s mother was struck by lightning and killed and her father remarried shortly thereafter. Friction which existed between her and her stepmother…