Wing v. Wachovia Bank & Trust Company, N.A.

Decision Date03 June 1980
Citation300 N.C. 380,267 S.E.2d 686
CourtNorth Carolina Supreme Court
PartiesMartha Andrews Johnson WING and Jane Virginia Andrews Power Philbrick v. WACHOVIA BANK & TRUST COMPANY, N. A., Successor Trustee, and Augusta Andrews Young, et al.

Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, for Augusta Andrews Young, Alexander A. Marks, Laurence H. Marks, Graham H. Andrews, Jr., F. M. Simmons Andrews, William M. Marks III, Ralph Stanley Marks, Frances Marks Bruton, Julia Marks Young, Elizabeth Marks Green, Jane A. Marks (formerly designated as Jane Marks Cline), Hal V. Worth III, Julia A. Worth Ray, Simmons Holladay Worth, John W. Andrews, Sara Simmons Andrews Johnston and Mary Graham Andrews.

Joyner & Howison, for defendant-appellee, Wachovia Bank & Trust Company.

Emanuel and Thompson, for appellant, Alex B. Andrews, III.

John A. McAllister, additional party appellee, guardian ad litem.

Vaughan S. Winborne, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Manning, Fulton & Skinner, for additional parties appellants, Howard E. Manning, trustee and William H. Clarkson, Jr.

Smith, Debnam, Hibbert & Pahl, guardian ad litem for additional party appellant, James Rose Andrews.

Petition by guardian ad litem for discretionary review under G.S. § 7A-31. Allowed.

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