In Re Estate of Henderson

OPINION

FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J.

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which E. RILEY ANDERSON, ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., JANICE M. HOLDER, and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.

We granted review in this case to decide whether a probate court’s rejection of all purported wills submitted for probate and the entering of an order finding that the decedent died intestate constitutes a final order for purposes of appeal. Jeff Henderson, the plaintiff-appellant, asserts that the trial courts order rejecting the decedent’s wills and finding that he died intestate was not a final order because the trial…