Bingham v. Brooks

MILLIKEN, Judge.

Inability to agree on a means of paying for the funeral of elderly Kitty Brooks Bingham resulted in her devoted three adult children and surviving spouse precipitating this litigation, the record of which comprises nearly four hundred typewritten pages.

When T. C. Brooks died intestate in 1905, his children, Flannery Brooks and Tommie Brooks, became the owners of his one-half undivided interest in a tract of Knox County land subject to the dower interest of their mother, Kitty Brooks, who owned the remaining one-half interest in the land. Subsequently, Kitty Brooks married W.…