IN RE DESKINS' ESTATES


381 S.W.2d 921 (1964)

In re ESTATES of Robert Gene DESKINS, Deceased, and Martha Deskins, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

September 4, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smoot, Wright & Cate, Kingsport, for appellant.

Sanders, Moore & Stout, Kingsport for appellee.


FELTS, Justice.

The question on this appeal is whether the estate of the husband is liable for funeral expenses of his wife where both died simultaneously in a common disaster and the estates of both are solvent.

It was stipulated that Robert Gene Deskins and his wife Martha Deskins were killed in an airplane crash in Colorado August 17, 1962; that there is no sufficient evidence that they died otherwise than simultaneously; that the estate of each is solvent...

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