Freeman v. City of Kingsport

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

In this action to set aside a tax sale of property, the defendant City of Kingsport’s motion to dismiss was granted by the Trial Judge. Plaintiffs have appealed.

The complaint alleges that plaintiffs are the heirs of Anna B. Pearson, through her daughter, Leona Sue Odham, and at the time of Anna B. Pearson’s death in 1966, she left a life estate to Leona Sue with the remainder to Leona’s children. Leona Sue Odham (nee Pearson) died intestate on the 8th day of October, 1991 and the plaintiffs are her surviving children.

It is averred that subsequent to the death of Anna,…