Legal Opinion

Miller v. Birdsong

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1874PublishedCited by 2 opinions

FROM HARDEMAN. Appeal from the Chancery Court. Henry L. Livingston, Chancellor.

1Opinion of the CourtNicholsoN, C. J.

In July, 1860, A. B. Birdsong died in Tippah county, Mississippi, leaving M. J. Birdsong, his widow, and several children. No letters of administration were taken out on his estate either in Mississippi or Tennessee until 1870, when Pitser Miller, as a creditor of N. B. Birdsong, took out letters of administration in-Hardeman county, Tennessee.

In March, 1871, Miller, as administrator, filed his-bill in the Chancery Court at Bolivar, against M. J. Birdsong, widow, and the several children of said Birdsong, and M. J. Newland, alleging that he was a creditor of N. B. Birdsong, and asking to…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Clouse v. ClouseTennessee Supreme Court · 1948
  2. Cory v. OlmsteadTennessee Supreme Court · 1926

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