Nashville Trust Co. v. Johnson

The bill was filed by Nashville Trust Company, administrator with the will annexed, to construe the will of Mary Fite Smith, deceased. The beneficiaries named in the will were made parties defendant; and, also, “William L. Adrian, Bishop of the Boman Catholic Diocese of Nashville, as Trustee for the Holy Family Church, a resident of Davidson County, Tennessee,” was named a party defendant.

Two paper writings, taken together, had been declared by the circuit court of Davidson County to be the last will and testament of Mary Fite Smith in a will contest suit in that court. It is these two paper…