Johnston v. Herrin

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Williamson county construing the will of Ephraim Herrin, deceased, and adjudging that defendants Jeff S. Herrin and Mark Herrin had no interest in the estate of the deceased which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process, and that no right, title or interest in that estate passed to the respective trustees in bankruptcy in certain bankrupt proceedings instituted by those defendants. The principal question in the case therefore concerns the second and third clauses of the will involved.

Ephraim Herrin died January 5,…