Estate of Patten v. Batchelor

OPINION

SANDERS, Judge.

This case involves the construction of T.C.A. § 30-524 as it relates to a tort action pending at the time of decedent’s death.

Zeboim Cartter Patten died testate in Hamilton County on or about February 6, 1982. His will was filed for probate in the Chancery Court, Part II, Probate Division of Hamilton County. Letters testamentary were issued to Elizabeth Biyan Patten, *699W.A. Bryan Patten and Z. Cartter Patten, III. At the time of Mr. Patten’s death a suit was pending against him and others in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The suit,…