Long v. Joyner

EAGLES, Chief Judge.

C. Wayne and Carol Joyner (“defendants”) appeal from an order compelling them to answer interrogatories presented by Sylvia Frye Long (“plaintiff’). The order also required defendants to pay plaintiff’s attorney fees in the amount of $1,980.00 as a sanction pursuant to Rule 37 of the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

The evidence tends to show the following. Plaintiff is serving as administratrix of the Estate of Sylvia Frye Long (“decedent”). Decedent was plaintiff’s aunt. Decedent was a widow who owned a parcel of land in Hickory, North Carolina. Defendant Wayne…