Tennessee Supreme Court March 15, 1833 (Roberts v. Jackson's Heirs)

Geeen, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

In the passage of the act of 1784, ch. 22, the Legislature manifestly intended, first, that those nearest in blood to the intestate, should inherit his estate in preference to those more remote; second, that the blood of the father should inherit preferably to that of the mother; and third, that the line from whence the estate descended, should