                      United States Court of Appeals
                             FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                     No. 98-1316EA
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Nanetta Edge Ryman; Willis Leroy      *
Edge, Jr.,                            *
                                      *
                  Appellants,         * Appeal from the United States
                                      * District Court for the Eastern
      v.                              * District of Arkansas.
                                      *
Nell Ewing Edge; Nell Teague; Steven *       [UNPUBLISHED]
Lee Edge,                             *
                                      *
                  Appellees.          *
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                              Submitted: September 25, 1998
                                  Filed: September 30, 1998
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Before McMILLIAN, HEANEY, and FAGG, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

       Nanetta Edge Ryman and Willis Leroy Edge, Jr. appeal from the adverse
decision of the district court in this declaratory judgment action. Because this is a
diversity case, we review de novo questions of state law. After reviewing the record
and the parties' briefs, we are satisfied the district court correctly applied relevant state
law. The record supports the district court's decision that the last will and testament
in question was made in conformity with Arkansas law and that laches bars the
appellants' claims. We thus affirm the district court. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
A true copy.

      Attest:

               CLERK, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, EIGHTH CIRCUIT.




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