Bowerman v. Burris
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM McMINN. Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of McMinn County to tbe Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court.— S. C. Bkown, Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
Mil. Chief Justice Neil
delivered the opinion of the ■ Court.
This was a proceeding conducted in the circuit court of MeMinn County for the contest of the will of one David Bowerman. The declaration was in the usual form; also the first plea. The second and third pleas, present the real matters of controversy. They are in substance the same, and aver that the will was invalid, because it was made “under a mistake and misapprehension of the facts; the same having been made at a time when the said David Bowerman believed that the defendant P. L. Bowerman, the only son of the said David Bowerman,…
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