McCALEB v. SHANTZ

No. 46519.

318 S.W.2d 199 (1958)

John McCALEB, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Vesta Lee Prentice SHANTZ et al., Defendants-Respondents, Von Gemmingen & Co., Inc., a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

December 8, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Austin C. Knetzger, St. Louis, for appellant.

Ernest E. Baker, St. Louis, for defendants (respondents).


COIL, Commissioner.

The will of Vesta L. Greer devised a one-seventh interest in each of two parcels, and all of another piece, of St. Louis real estate to von Gemmingen & Co., Inc., a Missouri corporation, organized under the general business corporation laws. In proceedings to quiet title and to partition, residuary devisees claimed that the devises to the corporation were void because prohibited by the Missouri Constitution and that, consequently, the real...

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