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BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF METHODIST CHURCH v. WELPTON

No. 44643.

284 S.W.2d 580 (1955)

The BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the METHODIST CHURCH OF NEVADA, Missouri, and The Methodist Children's Home of Missouri, a Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kathleen Floyd WELPTON, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri. Division No. 1.

December 12, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack P. Pritchard and Donald B. Russell, Pritchard & Russell and James E. Woodfill, of counsel, Nevada, and Lewis, Rice, Tucker, Allen & Chubb, St. Louis, of counsel, for appellants.

A. E. Elliott, Lynn M. Ewing, Nevada, for respondent.

HOLMAN, Commissioner.

Action to establish the last will and testament of Phenia Floyd, deceased. At the close of plaintiffs' evidence the court sustained defendant's motion for a directed verdict. The jury accordingly returned a verdict to the effect that the paper writing in evidence was not the last will and testament of said decedent. From the ensuing judgment plaintiffs have duly appealed. We have jurisdiction since the purported will devises real estate to plaintiffs...

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