PETERSON v. BLEDSOE

No. 42296.

241 S.W.2d 375 (1951)

PETERSON v. BLEDSOE et al.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

July 9, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Sharp, New Madrid, for appellant.

R. F. Baynes, New Madrid, for respondents.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

This action to establish a lost will was tried by the court. Upon the issue of whether the proffered instrument was the last will of the testatrix, Mo.R.S.1949, Sec. 468.580, the trial court found that if the testatrix, Rosie Peterson, executed the will in which her former husband, the plaintiff, was the principal beneficiary that the will was not in existence at the time of her death and that she had destroyed it during her lifetime and thereby...

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