Holmes v. Roddy

Mk Chief Justice G-reew

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought by the complainant as a devisee under the will of the late Charles E. Beebe to recover from his executors a certain piece of real estate in Chattanooga. Both the complainant and the defendants claim to be entitled to the possession of the same under the aforesaid will.

The testator seems to have been the owner of numerous parcels of real estate in Chattanooga. He undertook to dispose of these by his will. The first sentence of the will is as follows:

“Know all men by these presents that I, Charles E. Beebe the…