Blackmore v. Blackmore
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM SUMNER. This bill was filed by the complainant as widow and devisee of William M. Blackmore, deceased, in the Chancery Court at Gallatin, seeking a construction of the will of said decedent, and praying that a house and and lot in Gallatin, which she claimed under said will, might be decreed to her. .The clauses of the will in controversy are cited in the opinion of the Court.
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PROM SUMNER. This bill was filed by the complainant as widow and devisee of William M. Blackmore, deceased, in the Chancery Court at Gallatin, seeking a construction of the will of said decedent, and praying that a house and and lot in Gallatin, which she claimed under said will, might be decreed to her. .The clauses of the will in controversy are cited in the opinion of the Court. At the September Term, 1855, Chancellor Rid-ley gave a decree in favor of the complainant, from which the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHaheis, J.
This bill is brought in the - Chancery Court at Gal-latin, by the complainant, to have her right declared to a house and lot in the town of Gallatin, which she charges were devised to her by the second item in the will of her late husband, William M. Blackmore, deceased, and which is claimed by the defendant, *367James Blackmore, an infant son of the testator, who insists they were devised to him under the third item in said will. The rents and profits of which, he, by his guardians, Guild and Blackmore, has been receiving since the death of his testator.
The bill prays for a construction of the…
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