Currie v. Scott

Mr. Judge Smedley,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

The essential question presented by this record for decision is: Are the respondents, Mrs. Scott and Mrs.'Singleton, to whom the testatrix devised a section of land which was encumbered to secure a debt owed by her, entitled to have the section of land exonerated from the lien by subjecting to the payment of the debt interests in other land that were specifically devised to petitioners Hardin-Simmons University, Hendrick Memorial Hospital, Buckner Orphan’s Home and East Fourth Street Baptist Church of Big…