Latta v. Brown

This case is before us on appeal from the Court of Chancery Appeals. Dr. W. H. Brown, of Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee, died, leaving surviving him his widow, Mrs. Mary Lou Brown, his daughter, Mrs. Maggie C. Taylor, and Lizzie C. and Willie B. Alexander, his grandchildren by a deceased daughter. He left a will, by which he devised to his daughter, Mrs. Taylor, for life, with remainder to her children, his residence, two storehouses and lots and three other lots in Columbia. Pie left a farm of about six hundred and thirty acres of land in Maury County, which by his will he divided into…