Johnson v. Lusk
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. This cause was heard at the April Term, 1867, by ¥m. E. Cooper, special Chancellor, who decreed in favor of the complainants; defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJames O. Shackelford, J.
This bill was filed in the Chancery Court of Davidson county, and presents the following state of facts:
Leroy C. Coleman, in November, 1863, sold and conveyed a house and lot in the city of Nashville, to H. C. Jenkins, on a credit of ten years, for $10,000, and took his ten several notes, for $1,000 each, due each succeeding year, and payable to himself, L. C. Coleman and his wife, Caroline, the complainant. Coleman had been previously married. A few days before his second marriage to the complainant, Caroline, who was then a widow, in 1850, he executed a Will, by which he gave the one half…
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