Heiskell v. Chickasaw Lodge
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from Chancery Court of Shelby County. JB. M. Estes, Ch.
1Opinion of the Court
Dickinson, Sp. J.
This bill was filed by the executor of the will of Mrs. Addie B. Howell against Chickasaw Lodge, Ho. 8, Independent Order Odd Fellows, a devisee, and Eva Happoldt and others, who are residuary legatees under said will. The eleventh clause of the will is as follows: “I give the proceeds of my $2,000 Union and Planters’ Insurance Company stock to Chickasaw Lodge, Ho. 8, I. O. O. E., the dividends from said stock to he used by said lodge for the benefit of the widows and orphans.”
It is conceded that this meant Planters’ Insurance stock, the decedent owning at her death that…
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