In Re Golding's Estate

The evidence overwhelmingly established that Mabel Golding was the common-law wife of Warren T. Golding, deceased, and entitled to all of the rights and benefits accrued to her by reason of being his widow. The evidence does not to any degree support the ruling and decisions of the trial court that Mabel Golding was not the wife of Warren T. Golding.

It was error for the trial court to grant what is the equivalent of a motion of nonsuit, in other words, a motion to overrule appellant's objections to the admission of the will to probate. Sec. 8793 N.C.L.

The correspondence kept up between Mabel…