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LUKAS v. HAYS

No. 44785.

283 S.W.2d 561 (1955)

Virginia May Hays LUKAS, Appellant, v. P. C. HAYS, Administrator of the Estate of Howard B. Hays, Deceased, and Howard B. Hays, Jr., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

November 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hyde & Purcell, Poplar Bluff, for appellant.

Byron Kearby, Poplar Bluff, Max M. Fleisher, Leonard W. Koplin, Chicago, Ill., for respondents.

HOLMAN, Commissioner.

This is a proceeding in equity in which plaintiff (appellant), Virginia May Hays Lukas, seeks to enforce an alleged oral contract of adoption and to have herself declared a lawful child and heir of Howard B. Hays, deceased. Plaintiff contends that the contract was entered into between her mother, May Talmadge Haizlip, and Howard B. Hays and Vera Hays, his wife, and that it was fully performed by plaintiff and her mother. The defendants are P...

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