Thompson v. Thompson

We granted certiorari in this case because the question involved is an important one.

The original complainant Leona Osborne Thompson filed her original bill under the Declaratory Judgments Act T.C.A. sec. 23-1101 et seq. seeking a determination of her rights as a life tenant under the will of her husband, J. B. Thompson, deceased, who died testate in Lincoln County, Tennessee, on August 30, 1953.

The specific purposes of the bill are to determine:(1) Whether as such life tenant complainant had the unrestricted right to sell timber; or(2) If not, then to determine whether she had the right to…