Legal Opinion

Morrow v. Person

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided June 5, 1953PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Tomlinson

Jake McCulley died in December of 1912 the owner of the four tracts of land involved in this litigation. A paper purporting to be his will was probated in common form as such in 1915. His widow died in 1917. His only child was a daughter named Sylvia Person. In 1932 and 1935, respectively, Sylvia Person mortgaged these four tracts of land. Howison Morrow, the appellant here, became the purchaser under the foreclosure of each of these mortgages, and has been in possession since 1935 as to three tracts, and since 1938 as to the other one.

'Upon the death of Sylvia Person in 1950 some of her…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Grier v. CanadaTennessee Supreme Court · 1907
  2. Maxwell v. HillTennessee Supreme Court · 1891
  3. Beadles v. AlexanderTennessee Supreme Court · 1877
  4. Obion County Ex Rel. North Fork Drainage Dist. No. 2 v. MassengillTennessee Supreme Court · 1941
  5. Miller v. GratzCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1926

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Windscheffel v. WrightSupreme Court of Kansas · 1961
  2. Harrison v. HarrisonTennessee Supreme Court · 1995
  3. Phyllis W. Finlay, Co-Executrix, and Phil B. Whitaker, Substitute Co-Executor, of the Estate of Mary Louise Finlay v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1985
  4. Holley v. MarksTennessee Supreme Court · 1976
  5. Bedford v. MegelTennessee Supreme Court · 1957

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