BROWNFIELD v. BROWNFIELD

No. 42713.

249 S.W.2d 389 (1952)

BROWNFIELD et al. v. BROWNFIELD.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

June 9, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis C. Flynn, St. Louis, Murtha J. Hackett, St. Louis, Lawson Romjue, Macon, H. K. West, Brookfield, for appellants.

C. B. Burns, Brookfield, Waldo Edwards, David Collins, Macon, for respondent.


TIPTON, Judge.

This is an action by the appellants, who are two nephews, a niece and a cousin of Mary Margaret Brownfield, deceased, to contest her will dated April 26, 1924. The trial court directed a verdict which declared this to be deceased's last will at the close of the evidence offered by appellants and entered a judgment establishing the instrument in writing dated April 26, 1924 as the last will and testament of deceased.

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