In Re Estate of Benjamin M. Bates and Estate of Pearl Bates

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE Assigned on Briefs October 14, 2011 IN RE ESTATE OF BENJAMIN M. BATES AND ESTATE OF PEARL BATES Appeal from the Chancery Court for Warren County No. 2461P, 2462P Larry B. Stanley, Judge No. M2011-01064-COA-R3-CV - Filed January 5, 2012 This appeal arises from a claim filed against two decedents’ estates to recover the value of improvements made to real estate since 2000. The claimant is one of nine children of the decedents, husband and wife, who died in 1959 and 1962, respectively. The court granted the appellee’s claim for the value of…