Matter of Estate of Edwards

343 S.E.2d 913 (1986)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Virginia Duncan EDWARDS, Deceased (Appealed by Clayton I. Duncan and Charles B. Nye, Co-Executors of the Estate of Virginia D. Edwards, deceased).

No. 701A85.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 3, 1986.

W.Y. Manson and Samuel Roberti, Durham, for petitioner-appellee.

Nye & Mitchell by R. Roy Mitchell, Jr., and Edmund D. Milam, Jr., Durham, for respondents-appellants.

MEYER, Justice.

We are presented on this appeal with a single question of first impression: whether two natural children of a testatrix, born of a previous marriage and adopted with…