Franklin v. Armfield
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SUMNER. The matters in litigation in this case involve the construction of the will of Isaac Franklin, dec’d, late of the county of Sumner, and a proper adjustment of accounts between the executors, trustees, legatees and de-visees as to their rights, interests and obligations under the same, as fixed and declared, as well by the laws of Tennessee as by those of Louisiana.
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FROM SUMNER. The matters in litigation in this case involve the construction of the will of Isaac Franklin, dec’d, late of the county of Sumner, and a proper adjustment of accounts between the executors, trustees, legatees and de-visees as to their rights, interests and obligations under the same, as fixed and declared, as well by the laws of Tennessee as by those of Louisiana. The will was executed in the State of Louisiana on the 24th of Hay, 1841, and disposes of a large estate, real and personal, in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, estimated at nearly one million of…
1Opinion of the Court
JohN Mabshall of Eranklin, Special J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The matters submitted to the judgment of the court, in this case, arise out of the last will of Isaac Eranklin •deceased, and' various ácts of his executors, devisees and heirs and distributees, after his death and before the exhibition of the bill of the complainants, as well as adjudications of courts in the States of Tennessee and Louisiana.
*328Isaac Franklin made and published his last will and testament in the parish of West Feliciana, in the State of Louisiana, on the 24th of May, 1841, and died on the 27th of April,…
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