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COATES v. COATES

No. 45554.

304 S.W.2d 874 (1957)

Beulah M. COATES and Gordon R. Coates, Trustees Under the Will of William Waldren Coates, Deceased, Respondents, v. Beulah M. COATES and Gordon R. Coates, and Neligh C. Coates and W. W. Coates, Jr., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri. Division No. 2.

September 9, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stinson, Mag, Thomson, McEvers & Fizzell, Lawrence R. Brown, Kansas City, for appellants.

Clay C. Rogers, Rogers, Field, Gentry & Jackson, Kansas City, Otto R. Erker, St. Louis, for respondents.

BARRETT, Commissioner.

This is a suit for a declaratory judgment by the trustees of a trust created under the will of William Waldren Coates. One of the plaintiff trustees, Beulah M. Coates, was the wife of the testator and is the life income beneficiary of the trust. The other trustee, Gordon R. Coates, and the defendants, Neligh Coates and W. W. Coates, Jr., are brothers and sons of the testator by a former marriage. In the pleadings and throughout the trial several...

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