BILLY MATTHEWS, JACK MATTHEWS, LEONARD MATTHEWS, JOSEPHINE BRIDGERS, ELIZABETH BRADLEY, BARTHOLOMEW KIMBALL, MARGARET JONES FOUNTAIN, HUGH SHERROD, ROM SHERROD, NELL ANDERSON, DAPHNE LILES, MILDRED RODGERS, AND ELIZABETH MARSHBURN, Petitioners v. WILLIAM T. WATKINS, Executor of the Estate of ANNIE MAE S. DAVIS, Respondent

No. 559A88

(Filed 8 June 1989)

Appeal by petitioners pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 91 N.C. App. 640, 373 S.E. 2d 133 (1988), affirming an order of Judge Robert H. Hobgood, entered 2 July 1987 in the Superior Court, GRANVILLE County, which denied petitioners’ petition to revoke certain Letters Testamentary previously issued to respondent. Heard in the Supreme Court 11 May 1989.

Parker and Parker, by Rom B. Parker, Jr., for petitioner appellants.

Adams, McCullough & Beard, by J. Allen Adams and Reman R. Clark, for respondent appellee.