STATE v. BRADLEY

No. 49045.

358 S.W.2d 38 (1962)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. Bettye L. JENKINS (nee Salmon), Relator, v. Lawrence L. BRADLEY, Probate Judge of Dunklin County, Missouri, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

June 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Powell & Jones, Dexter, for relator.

McHaney, Billings & Welman, William H. Billings, Kennett, for Lawrence L. Bradley.

Thompson Mitchell Douglas & Neill, James M. Douglas, Robert Neill, W. Stanley Walch, St. Louis, for Mercantile Trust Co., amici curiae.

Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts, Robert H. McRoberts, Marion S. Francis, St. Louis, for St. Louis Union Trust Co., amici curiae.

Lewis, Rice, Tucker, Allen & Chubb, Charles C. Allen, Sr., Charles C. Allen, Jr., St. Louis, for Boatmen's Nat. Bank of St. Louis, amici curiae.

Charles C. Oliver, Jr., Kansas City, Rush H. Limbaugh, Cape Girardeau, Donald H. Chisholm, Kansas City, amici curiae.


HYDE, Judge.

Relator filed petition in the Circuit Court of Dunklin County, on April 26, 1961, for a writ of mandamus to compel respondent, Probate Judge of Dunklin County, "to assume jurisdiction of the testamentary trust as provided under the Last Will and Testament of Helen L. Wilson, deceased, filed in the Probate Court of Dunklin County on November 16, 1956, under which Trust relator is one of the beneficiaries named therein."

An alternative writ issued...

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