Shockley v. Harris

The complainants have appealed from a decree of the chancery court of Hamilton connty dismissing their bill. The original bill was filed herein by Mrs. Sophie Shockley, Mrs. Florence Berrin, Gertrude Harris and J. B. Harris against W. J. Harris and the Chattanooga Savings Bank & Trust Company, attaching certain funds in the hands of the latter; and seeking to hold said W. J. Harris to the terms of an agreement made with complainants. The bill was likewise for the purpose of having declared effectual as a completed gift a certain assignment of defendant’s interest in a decedent’s estate in the…