Case ID: nc_230/html/0176-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BaRNHill, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ELLEN C. EDWARDS v. ARPHENIE EDWARDS and PETER EDWARDS.
    (Filed 23 March, 1949.)
    Executors and Administrators § log: Pleadings § 31—
    Upon petition for allotment of a widow’s year’s allowance, allegations in the answer to the effect that the widow did not need an allotment for her support, that deceased's will evidenced a desire that the widow should receive no part of the estate, and that defendants were the aged and infirm parents of deceased dependent upon the estate left them by the will, are irrelevant to the issues and could not be shown in evidence, and were properly stricken upon motion, since even the reading of the pleadings would be highly prejudicial to petitioner.
    Appeal by defendants from Moore, JAugust Term, 1948, Yaitcey.
    Affirmed.
    
      Petition before tbe clerk, under G.S. 30-27 et seq., for the allotment of a widow’s year’s allowance, heard on motion to strike allegations contained in the answer.
    The defendants filed answer to the petition of plaintiff in which they make certain allegations which may be summarized as follows: (1) Plaintiff has recently received a large sum as compensation for personal injuries sustained in an automobile collision and therefore does not need an allotment out of the property of deceased, left for the support of his aged parents; (2) as the widow of deceased, a chief aviation machinist mate in the United States Navy, she has received and will receive support from the United States Government; (3) the defendants, parents of the deceased, are aged and infirm, that the male defendant is paralyzed, blind, and helpless, and they are dependent upon the estate left by the deceased for their support; (4) that petitioner lives in Brooklyn, N. Y., is able to support herself without depriving the aged and disabled defendants of their means of livelihood; and (5) deceased in his will evidenced a desire that petitioner should receive no part of his estate.
    There are other allegations in the answer which raise issues of fact for the jury.
    The plaintiff appeared and moved to strike said allegations more fully set out in the answer. The motion was allowed and petitioners appealed.
    
      J. Frank Husicins for ‘petitioner appellee.
    
    
      W. F. Anglin and G. P. Randolph for defendant appellants.
    
   BaRNHill, J.

The facts alleged in the answer, stricken by order of the court below, have no bearing on the issues raised by the pleadings. They could not be shown in evidence. To permit them to be presented to the jury, even through the reading of the pleadings, would be highly prejudicial to the petitioner. Hence the order striking same must be

Affirmed.