In Re the Will of Knight

In the record on this appeal caveators make eleven assignments of error based on eighteen exceptions. However, they did not bring forward in their brief the fourth assignment of error. Therefore this assignment and the exceptions upon which it is based are deemed 'abandoned. Rule. 28, Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court, 221 N.C. 562; Darroch v. Johnson and Colville v. Johnson, 250 N.C. 307, 311, 108 S.E. 2d 589.

The first assignment of error is based on the exclusion of certain evidence which caveators sought to elicit on cross-examination from the clerk of the Superior Court of Rockingham…