Union Planters National Bank v. Corbitt

This lawsuit was filed in the Chancery Court of Shelby County, Tennessee for a construe tion of the Last Will and Testament of James J. Corbitt, deceased.

James J. Corbitt died a bachelor on February 26,1967. The controversy is between the adopted children of his niece, herein called the Drake Heirs, and his first cousins, herein called the Corbitt Heirs.

James J. Corbitt’s parents predeceased him, and he had one sister, Elizabeth Corbitt Pryor, who died in April,. 1966. That sister had a daughter Eloise Pryor, who married James Hampton Drake, Sr., on March 24, 1967. On December 15, 1967,…