Larkin v. Lightburne

This is a suit to settle the estate of Catherine Larkin Lightbnrne, deceased. Mrs. Lightbnrne owned certain real estate in Shelby connty vested “to her sole and separate use, free from the.debts, liabilities, and contracts of her present or any future husband.’ 9

In .1893 she was married to J. S. Lightbnrne, and several children were born to' this union and still survive.

By her last will and testament she undertook to devise the aforesaid real estate, held as her separate estate, to her children. Her husband, J.’ S. Lightbnrne, has filed a cross-bill in this cause seeking to set up a tenancy…