Beck v. Beck

HUDSON, Judge.

On 18 February 2000, plaintiffs filed suit seeking to set aside a deed executed in 1998 by plaintiff and her late husband. Following Avery Edward Beck’s (“Mr. Beck”) death on 22 September 2000, two writings were discovered, one dated 1995 and the other 1998, each *312purporting to be Mr. Beck’s will. Both wills named Evelyn Barton Beck (“plaintiff’) as the sole devisee and executor. Though plaintiff contended that Mr. Beck had not been competent to execute a will in 1998, the Clerk of Superior Court of Davidson County probated the 1998 will as the decedent’s last known testamentary…