Bennett v. Gallaher

Plaintiff files this hill, asserting a claim to the proceeds of sale of certain real estate under the will of B. G. W. Owens, upon the doctrine of equitable conversion. A demurrer was interposed to the hill, which was sustained hy the chancellor, and the hill dismissed. Complainant appealed, and assigned as error the action of the chancellor in sustaining the demurrer.

*570The said R. G. W. Owens departed this life in Anderson county, Tennessee, in 1860, leaving valuable .teal and personal estate situated in Anderson county. The testator left surviving him his widow, Catherine Owens, and seven…