Court Opinion

ID: 9868639
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 18:46:15.194696+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:50.254127
License: Public Domain

ÜN PETITION TO REHEAR.
Petition to rehear has been filed seeking to have this Court declare now how the property will descend on the death of Keeling in the event that one of the present children or one after-born shall predecease the life tenant. *144The defendants seek the declaration, but the other parties agree that such declaration may be made. In preparing its former opinion this Court did not overlook this possibility, but since no child of Keeling has died, the situation is not an actual one and we doubt that the issue is now justiciable. Any declaration by us at the present time can have no greater weight than any other obiter dictum.
However, we stated in the former opinion, that the “class doctrine” did not apply for the reasons there ■stated and under the authorities there cited. It follows that the rule made in Satterfield v. Mayes, 30 Tenn. 58, does not apply, and that the case is ruled by Bridgewater v. Gordon, 34 Tenn. 5.
With this elaboration of our former opinion, petition to rehear is denied.