ROOKSTOOL v. NEAF

No. 50092.

377 S.W.2d 402 (1964)

Margaret Weidman Jones ROOKSTOOL, Appellant, v. Joseph NEAF, Administrator of the Estate of Fred Weidman, Deceased, and Marian Frances Long, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

April 13, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Moloney, St. Louis, for plaintiff-appellant.

George E. Murray and Frank C. Boland, Clayton, for defendants-respondents.


PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Plaintiff, as the former spouse of decedent, Fred Weidman, sought specific performance of an alleged oral contract, made just prior to their 1952 divorce, that each of them would keep their existing mutual and reciprocal last wills and testaments in force and not revoke them. Decedent and the plaintiff did not personally revoke their wills, but § 474.420 (all statutory references are to RSMo...

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