Allen v. Brown

By devise and conveyances, Mrs. Mattie E. Brown became the owner in fee simple of an undivided interest of two-thirds in a house and lot in the City of Knoxville. The title to the other one-third interest was vested in Mrs. Brown for her life, with remainder in fee simple in the heirs of F. A. Brown (who are the complainants in this cause), with a charge of $500 on said remainder in favor of complainant Annie N. Hayder, as provided in the will of Anna R. Stearns, who had owned the said property.

In this state of the title, Mrs. Mattie A. Brown, on June 1, 1928, executed a deed of trust to her…