McGRAIL v. SCHMITT

No. 48389.

357 S.W.2d 111 (1962)

Lucy McGRAIL, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Sadie T. SCHMITT, nee Rhoades, and Margaret Wallow, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

May 14, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. Jones, Kansas City, Clarence C. Chilcott, Kansas City, for appellants.

Donald E. Raymond, Kansas City, Thomas M. Howell, Kansas City, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

This is the second appeal of a suit to contest the will of James Robert McGrail, deceased, who bequeathed his daughter Lucy $500 in cash, and the residue of his estate (consisting of oil leases worth upwards of $33,000) to his two surviving sisters. The first amended petition to set aside the will alleged (1) undue influence on the part of the sisters, (2) general mental incapacity of testator by reason of alcoholism, and (3) an insane delusion that Lucy...

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