Carnes v. Polk
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM FAYETTE. Appeal from decree of G. W. Reeves, J., sitting as Chancellor by interchange. There are no briefs, nor the names of counsel, in the record.
1Opinion of the Court
FreemaN, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.'
The only questions in this case are the proper mode of ascertaining the value of the life estate of Howell A. Tatum, in a tract of land of 406 acres, sold in 1854, and then, from the proof, what that value is.
The facts are, that by a decree of this Court, the value of the life estate of said Tatum was to be ascertained, to be allowed as a credit in an account *246which was directed, and the case remanded to Chancery Court at Somerville, for the purpose of taking the account.
The Clerk and Master made his report of the amount due, and the value of the…
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