Vaden v. Vaden
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SMITH. This cause was heard upon original and cross-bills, before Chancellor Ridley, at the February Term, 1858. The complainants in the cross-bill, and Ann Vaden, a defendant in the original bill, appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCaruthers, J.
The original bill was filed by Benjamin J. Vaden, administrator of his father, Lodwick Vaden, to obtain the possession of about sixteen slaves, as a part of the estate, from Ann Vaden, the widow, who sets up a claim to them for her life, and the remainder in her sister, Elizabeth McCrary, and Polly Johns, the sister of her first husband, under his nuncupative will. So she denies that they were the property of her late husband, or are now a part of the assets to which complainant is entitled.
The cross-bill is filed to set up and have protected this remainder right.
The Chancellor sustained the…
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