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COCHRAN v. FRIERSON

258 S.W.2d 748 (1953)

COCHRAN et al. v. FRIERSON et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

April 25, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frierson & Queener, Columbia, for petitioners W. Vance Thompson et al.

R.L. Harris, Jr., of Columbia, for Clark J. Cochran and B. Coleman Renick.

Shelton & Shelton, of Columbia, for Helen Clark Jones Shapard, Harriett Jones Quin, Gertrude L. Hitch, Frank D. Lander III and Thomas J. Jones.

MacFarland & Allen, of Columbia, Cecil Sims, of Nashville, and King & Houghton, of St. Petersburg, Fla., for original defendants.

PREWITT, Justice.

Certiorari has been granted and this cause orally argued at the bar of this Court. The controversy involves the title to a tract of 194 acres of land situated in Maury County, Tennessee. The Court of Appeals affirmed the Chancellor in holding that Luan T. Martin was the owner in fee of the land at the time of her death and had a right to dispose of it by will.

Mrs. Kate S. Stephenson was the owner of the fee simple estate in this land prior...

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