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COLLINS v. SMITHSON

585 S.W.2d 598 (1979)

S.T. COLLINS, Jr., et al., Petitioners-Plaintiffs, v. John L. SMITHSON et al., Respondents-Defendants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

August 20, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Henry, Henry & Henry, Pulaski, for petitioners-plaintiffs.

Carol L. Mittlesteadt, White & Mittlesteadt, Lawrenceburg, D.C. Lee, Pulaski, for respondents-defendants.

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

This case involves the interpretation and legal effect of a deed executed by parents to their daughter in 1905. The daughter survived her parents and died without issue in 1976. There was language in the deed providing for reversion of the subject property to the grantors, or to their estates, in the event of the death of the daughter without issue.

Both the trial court and the Court of Appeals held that the daughter owned...

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