Hughey v. Warner

In this ease there was a controversy between the surviving husband and the sister of his deceased wife over certain items of personal property consisting mainly of jewels, and an insurance fund belonging to the wife which she had deposited in bank. This fund had arisen under a policy which had been effected on the life of her first husband. The wife left a will by which she attempted to bequeath all of her property to her sister to the exclusion of the husband, and he brought his bill in the Shelby county *727chancery court to have his rights declared, and to recover the property. The chancellor…