Moulton v. Dawson

This appeal presents the question of the proper distribution of funds paid into Court in a condemnation case. The State, acting through its Commissioner of Highways, condemned a strip of land across a farm'"in Smith. .County for the Interstate Highway System and paid into Court the sum of $14,072.00 as the appraised damages .to the owners of the property taken, pursuant to Chapter 216, Public Acts of 1959. The title to this property passed under Item 3 of the will of S. S. Dawson, .which is as follows:

*186“All the remainder of my estate both real and personal I will, devise and bequeath to my…