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IN RE ESTATE OF CRAWFORD

No. 39,419

176 Kan. 537 (1954)

271 P.2d 240

ANN CRAWFORD and JAMES W. JORDAN, Special Administrator of the Estate of Joseph B. Crawford, Deceased, Appellants, v. JOSEPH H. CRAWFORD, ELIZABETH CRAWFORD SKINNER, FREDERICK W. CRAWFORD and CHARLES D. CRAWFORD, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed June 12, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl V. Shawver, Jr., of Paola, argued the cause, and Harry G. Wiles, of St. John, and Albert Thomson and Al Lebrecht, both of Kansas City, Missouri, were with him on the briefs for the appellants.

James A. Moore, of Kansas City, Missouri, argued the cause, and Hubert B. Sanders, of Stafford, was with him on the briefs for the appellees.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRICE, J.:

This was an action by the widow (joined by the Kansas administrator of the estate of Joseph B. Crawford, deceased, as a nominal plaintiff) to set aside a deed executed by decedent a few weeks prior to his death. The defendant grantees are the adult children of deceased by a former marriage.

Briefly summarized, it may be said the second amended petition alleged substantially the following:

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