Legal Opinion

Heiskell v. Chickasaw Lodge

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided May 11, 1889PublishedCited by 32 opinions

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…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. VIDAL v. Girard's ExecutorsSupreme Court of the United States · 1844
  2. Frierson v. General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United StatesTennessee Supreme Court · 1872

3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Estate of HendersonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1941
  2. In re John's WillOregon Supreme Court · 1896
  3. Chase v. DickeyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
  4. Hubbard v. Worcester Art MuseumMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
  5. Chattanooga, R. & C. R. v. EvansCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1895

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