TAYLOR v. AULTON


231 S.W.2d 573 (1950)

TAYLOR v. AULTON et al. AULTON et al. v. TAYLOR.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 9, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. E. Hodges, Knoxville, Chas. D. Mounger, Knoxville, for appellants.

White & Leonard, Knoxville, Chas. A. Maner, Admr. Ad Litem, Knoxville, for appellees.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

Sally J. Taylor, a widow, died intestate in 1948 the owner of a small farm. She never had any children, but Ralph Franklin Taylor, petitioner here, and complainant in the Chancery Court, insists that he is the owner of this farm by reason of certain adoption proceedings had in the County Court of Knox County in 1927, or by reason of an existing contract between intestate, on the one part, and the petitioner and petitioner's father for the adoption...

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