LONG v. WOOD


253 S.W.2d 731 (1952)

LONG v. WOOD et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 5, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.K. Williams, Jr., Guy L. Webb and S. Frank Fowler, all of Knoxville, for appellant.

Ben H. Testerman, J.C. Babcock and E. H. Marsh, Knoxville, for J.O. Carter, Jr., trustee, and Provident Life & Accident Ins. Co.

W.E. Fitzgerald and Ely & Ely, Knoxville, for Mrs. Annie Fitzgerald Long Wood and S.K. Robinson & Co.

Privette & Morton, Knoxville, for City of Knoxville.

White & Leonard, Knoxville, for Claude Robinson.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

The determinative question in this case is whether the appellant, Mary Ann Long, a minor, has any interest, vested or contingent, in the estate disposed of by the third item of the will of her grandfather, James F. Long, Sr. In order to determine that question it was necessary for the Chancellor to construe Item III of this will. Without writing an opinion, his decree was that she has no interest. She has appealed, and here insists that under a...

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