Kellar v. Baird
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM GIBSON. Appeal of defendant from decree of the Chancery Court at Trenton, December Term, 1869. Thos. C. Muse, Ch. cited Foster v. Hall, 4 Hum., 346; White v. Herd, 3 Head, 404; .Layne v. Pardue, 2 Swan, 236 ; 1 Am. Lead. Cases, 747, 748, 749, 750, 755; Allen v. Thomasson, 11 Hum., 536; 32 Law Lib., 101, 102, 117, 118, 121, 205, 173 to 176, 184, 186. citing 1 Am. Lead.
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FROM GIBSON. Appeal of defendant from decree of the Chancery Court at Trenton, December Term, 1869. Thos. C. Muse, Ch. cited Foster v. Hall, 4 Hum., 346; White v. Herd, 3 Head, 404; .Layne v. Pardue, 2 Swan, 236 ; 1 Am. Lead. Cases, 747, 748, 749, 750, 755; Allen v. Thomasson, 11 Hum., 536; 32 Law Lib., 101, 102, 117, 118, 121, 205, 173 to 176, 184, 186. citing 1 Am. Lead. Cases, 699 and notes; 1 Bos. & Pul., 230; 2 Kent, 43; 1 Sneed, 66; 2 Swan, 236; 3 Head, 409, 410; Code of Mississippi.
1Opinion of the CourtNigtiolsoN, C. J.
Complainants are the administrator, and half brothers and sisters, of Andrew R. Baird, who died in Mississippi in August, 1865, unmarried, without issue and intestate. Defendants are his whole brothers and sisters, and are in possession of the personal estate of which he died possessed. Complainants insist, that although Andrew R. died in Mississippi, yet that Tennessee was his domicil; and that his personal effects are subject to distribution under the laws of Tennessee, by which the half brothers and sisters are distributees. Defendants insist that his domicil was in Mississippi, by the…
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