Legal Opinion

Butler v. Furr

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided January 29, 1934No. 30363PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMcGowen, J.

The parties to a partition suit in the chancery court of Quitman county each took under the will of their kinsman as follows: To> Mrs. K. M. Bntler was devised for life, with remainder to the issue of her body, a seven-fifteenths interest, or three hundred fifty acres; to Jessie May Chrestman, now Mrs. Furr, and S. I. Chrestman, her brother, now dead, was devised an undivided four-fifteenths interest, or two hundred acres, and to Hal and Sallie Shannon was devised an undivided four-fifteenths, or two hundred acres — all of a seven hundred fifty-acre tract of land known as the “Desmond Place”…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Bennett v. BennettMississippi Supreme Court · 1904

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Brunt v. McLaurinMississippi Supreme Court · 1937
  2. In Re Last Will and Testament of LynnCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2004
  3. Carter v. BrewtonMississippi Supreme Court · 1981

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