Blackmore v. Woodward
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the United States for tiie Middle district of Tennessee, dismissing a hill in equity.
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Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the United States for tiie Middle district of Tennessee, dismissing a hill in equity. Blaekmore, the appellant, is the receiver of the Commercial National Bank of Nashville, a corporation organized under the laws of the United States, which became insolvent, lie filed his bill in the court below against M. D. Woodward, administrator with the will annexed of J. T. Matthews, and Mrs. N. O. Matthews. Tie averred in the bill that Mis. N. O. Mátthews…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). We are clearly of opinion that the demurrer to the bill wa's rightly sustained. The bequest of the 40 shares of stock in the Commercial National Bank was a legacy. The stock was severed from the bulk of the testator’s property by the operation of the will from the death of the tes*323tator, and was specifically appropriated, with its increase and emolument, for the benefit of the wife during her life or widowhood. 2 White & T. Lead. Cas. Eq. (4th Am., from 4th Lond., Ed.) pt. 1, p. 639. From that time on, the beneficial interest in the stock was in the wife for life or…
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