Legal Opinion

First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Dearth

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided May 6, 1955PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Neil

The sole determinative issue on this appeal is whether or not the First Federal Savings and Loan Association, as mortgagee, is entitled to foreclose its mortgage contrary to the rights and interests of the minor defendants, *306who claim to be vested remaindermen in fee simple under the will of their deceased grandmother. The father and mother of the defendants were the grantors in the aforesaid deed of trust.

The Chancellor decided this issue in favor of First Federal. The minor defendants appealed to the Court of Appeals, and that court reversed the Chancellor’s decree.

We granted the petition…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Wright v. EakinTennessee Supreme Court · 1924
  2. Raht v. MeekTennessee Supreme Court · 1890
  3. Gibson v. JonesTennessee Supreme Court · 1884

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Doughty v. HammondTennessee Supreme Court · 1960
  2. FIRST FED. S. & L. ASSN. v. DearthTennessee Supreme Court · 1955

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