Legal Opinion

Ridley v. McPherson

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided December 11, 1897PublishedCited by 13 opinions

FROM WILLIAMSON. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Williamson County. H. H. Cook, Ch.

1Opinion of the CourtWilkes, J.

This is a bill to construe a certain deed, made May 27, 1860, by John Starnes to Samuel W, Starnes and John M. McPherson, trustees, and to have the interests of complainants in the lands adjudicated and fixed, and the land partitioned.

The deed gives certain lands to the grantees, to hold in trust for the grantor’s daughter, Mary E. *403McPherson, for her separate use during life, and provides that, at her death, ‘ ‘ the lands shall be conveyed by the trustees to the issue of said Mary E. living at her death, and, in default of any such issue living at the death of said Mary E., then, upon this…

2Cited by13 opinions

  1. Mayhew's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1931
  2. Presley v. HanksCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1989
  3. Burdick v. GilpinTennessee Supreme Court · 1959
  4. Wyeth v. CraneIllinois Supreme Court · 1931
  5. White v. KaneTennessee Supreme Court · 1942

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