ASKEW v. MILLS


268 S.W.2d 569 (1954)

ASKEW v. MILLS et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 21, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh G. Arnold and L. L. Fonville, Jackson, for petitioner.

Pigford & Key and Waldrop, Hall & Winningham, Jackson, for respondents.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

When Mrs. Stedman died on April 7, 1940 she was vested with registered title to a certain residence costing $4,500. She was also in possession of promissory notes in the amount of $10,300 payable to her personally, and secured by a first lien on realty. On April 2, 1947 her daughter, Mrs. Askew, filed this bill wherein she alleged that her mother held all this property in trust for her six children. The Chancellor held that Mrs. Stedman owned the...

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