Legal Opinion
Coffee v. Ruffin
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided November 15, 1867PublishedCited by 4 opinions
FROM MEMPHIS. This cause was heard at the November Term, 1866, of the Chancery Court at Memphis, before Chancellor William M. Smith, who pronounced a decree in the cause; from which both parties appealed to this Court.
1Opinion of the CourtHawkins, J.
*490The substantial facts in this case, as I have been able to gather them from a confused, imperfect, and in some instances, wholly illegible record, seem to be these: Wm. Ruffin, Sr., died in July, 1857, after having made and published his last Will and testament, which was admitted to probate in the County Court of Shelby County, at the August Term, 1857, and which contains the following clauses, to-wit:
“Item 1st. It is my will and desire that my Executor, hereinafter made and named, shall pay all my just debts; and for the purpose of enabling him to do so, and to carry out the other…
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