A $1.6 million will that was placed between two pyrex dishes in a kitchen cabinet has disappeared.
A Chancery Court lawsuit was filed seeking to have a copy of the will filed to replace the original.
The suit, filed by attorney Fielding Atchley Jr., says Elizabeth Platt Adams made out the will on April 8, 1998.
She made a bequest to Adnah T. Eckert, but left the rest to a number of charities.
They are Central Baptist Church of Hixson, Precept Ministries, Habitat For Humanity, the Salvation Army, UNICEF, Christian Relief Services, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Maranantha Rescue Mission and the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Speech and Hearing Center.
The suit says Mrs. Adams was living at Wellington Place at 4515 Hixson Pike when she made the will. She moved in July 1998 to 2565 Kingsley Court.
At that time she told housekeeper Dorothy Hyder to place the will "in a manilla folder between two pyrex dishes in the cabinet of her kitchen for somewhere in the vicinity of her telephone."
Mrs. Adams later became mentally incompetent, and she died Feb. 1, it was stated.
The original will cannot be found.
The suit says Mrs. Adams had told the attorney who prepared it that she would put it in a safety deposit box at the main branch of AmSouth Bank in Hixson, but she apparently put it between the pyrex dishes instead.