FARISS v. BRY-BLOCK COMPANY


346 S.W.2d 705 (1961)

Annie K. FARISS et al., Petitioners, v. BRY-BLOCK COMPANY et al., Respondents. Annie K. FARISS et al., Petitioners, v. J. Albert KIMBROUGH et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 5, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Martin, Jr., John Costen, S. Shepherd Tate, Memphis, Martin, Tate & Morrow, Memphis, of counsel, for Annie K. Fariss, Blanche K. Kopkin, Alma and Buckley Kimbrough.

Lewis R. Donelson, III, Donald A. Malmo, Memphis, Donelson & Adams, Memphis, of counsel for J. Albert Kimbrough, Mabel K. Gregory, Sophia K. Sledge, Sallie K. Trobaugh, Pettus K. Jamison, and Lydia J.K. Simmons.

Wils Davis, Earl P. Davis, Memphis, Davis & Davis, Memphis, of counsel, for Jerdone and Harriet K. Davis and Franklin S. Kimbrough.

E.W. Hale, Jr., Rives Manker, Memphis, for E.W. Hale, Jr., Alberta H. Lyle, C. Edmonds Allen and Lydia Ann Long.

J. Lester Crain, Jr., Memphis, for Emma K. de Montluzin, Edna K. Crain and William F. Kimbrough.

J.S. Allen, J.S. McCadden, Benjamin Goodman, Memphis, Armstrong, McCadden, Allen, Braden & Goodman, Memphis, of counsel, for Bry-Block Co.


SWEPSTON, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case because of the importance of the question involved as well as by reason of the wide divergence in the views taken by the Chancellor and the Court of Appeals.

These litigations involve the construction of the words "next of kin" as used in Item III of the last will and testament of Mrs. Mary Monroe Kimbrough, who died in the year 1919. The entire will is attached...

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