Chambers v. Chattanooga Union Ry. Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM HAMILTON. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hamilton County. — T. M. McConnell, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Neil
The case is one wherein Mary M. Thurman, the mother of complainants, being then the remainderman, joined with the life tenant in a conveyance of certain land to the railroad company for right of way while she was an infant and unmarried. This was in 1892. She was then eighteen years of age. * She married in *4611894, being still under twenty-one. She remained covert until 1905, when she died, leaving complianants her only heirs at law. The life tenant died in 1910. The present suit was brought a few months thereafter, eighteen years after the mother of complainants made her deed. The…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Walton v. GainesTennessee Supreme Court · 1895
3Cited by10 opinions
- Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. HoltCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1926
- Quarles v. ArthurCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1950
- Campbell v. Lewisberg & Northern R. R.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1930
- Armstrong v. Illinois Central RailroadTennessee Supreme Court · 1926
- Ward v. SharpeTennessee Supreme Court · 1917
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