Nichols v. Guthrie
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM MAURY. Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Maury County. A. J. Abernathy, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Beard
The present case involves a controversy, growing-out of the third clause of the will of Thomas Walker, made in 1852, which is as follows: “To my granddaughter, Elizabeth Sims, I give the tract of land on which she now resides, containing about one hundred acres, also another tract of about the same size adjoining William McLane ... to have and to hold said property during her natural life, to he free from the debts, liabilities or contracts of her present . . . husband, and at her death all of said property is to be equally divided among the children of said Elizabeth then living, or the…
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