DETRICH v. MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY

No. 45166.

292 S.W.2d 300 (1956)

Don V. DETRICH et al., Respondents, v. MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY et al., Defendants, Service Club for the Blind, Inc., et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri. Division No. 2.

July 9, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. Huger, Walter H. Pollmann, William O. Cramer, St. Louis, for appellants, Sisters of St. Mary, a Corporation, and Service Club for the Blind, Incorporated.

Cox, Cox & Cox, Harvey B. Cox, Harvey B. Cox, Jr., William A. Moffitt, Jr., St. Louis, for respondents.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

In this conventional action to contest the will of Miss Elizabeth J. Detrich, a jury, by a nine to three verdict, found that the testatrix was of unsound mind on February 19, 1951, and, consequently, that the document was not in fact her last will and testament. The principal beneficiaries and proponents of the will have appealed from the final judgment entered in accordance with the verdict.

Miss Detrich was a spinster, aged sixty-seven...

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