In the Matter of Will of Parker

BECTON, Judge.

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This case presents an appeal from an order dismissing with prejudice the caveat of Lucille Carey to the alleged will of Mollie Parker. The factual and procedural history follows.

Mollie Parker died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 3 January 1983, at the. age of 81. She had apparently lived in Nash County, North Carolina, for most of her life. On 24 September 1982, she was taken from Wilson Memorial Hospital in Wilson, North Carolina, where she had been hospitalized since 7 August 1982, to Philadelphia, by her cousin, Lucille Carey. There was evidence that Carey had not visited…