Walker v. Bobbitt

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

One Henry Bobbitt died intestate in Henry county,. Tennessee, in tbe .year 1890. He left surviving bim a widow, Jane Bobbitt, but no lineal descendants. While tbe owner of some personal property, tbe only real estate in wbicb be bad an interest at tbe date of tbe making of bis will -or at any time thereafter was in a tract of one hundred acres lying in that county, wbicb bad been conveyed to bim and bis wife, and of wbicb they owned tbe estate by entirety.

In tbe first clause of bis will tbe testator provided for tbe payment of bis funeral expenses and bis…