The two youngest children of the late Wright Stanley petition the court for a construction of Stanley's will "and of the rights and liabilities of the respective devisees and legatees in said will." The petitioners believe that their father's "bounty" has been disproportionately distributed to his children. They submit that their brother and two sisters, who reached twenty-one years of age well before them, have received their shares of the slaves, land, and profits from their late father's estate. They now ask the court to compel the executor of the will "to come to an account and pay over" their equitable share of the estate. The estate's profits include the rents and income from Stanley's real estate and the wood and timber thereon. They ask the court to ascertain the "rights interest and estates and liabilities of all parties under said will."
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Repository: Williamson County Preservation of Records and Archives, Franklin, Tennessee
