Overton v. Lea
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Davidson County. íl. H. Coon, Ch.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAlister, J.
The questions propounded for our determination upon this record involve the construction of two wills. Robert B. Lea, a citizen of Tennessee, died at Geneva, Switzerland, on *508the 8th of January, 1895, while temporarily so* journing abroad. lie left surviving him a widow, Rebecca Salmons Lea, and two children, John McCormick Lea, Jr., and Bessie Lea, who intermarried with Dalton Kelly, and upon his decease was united in marriage with J. O. Leake. Mr. Robert B. Lea, during his life, had come into the possession of an estate estimated to be worth two hundred thousand dollars, half of which he…
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