SIMPSON v. BLACKBURN

No. 32735.

414 S.W.2d 795 (1967)

Geneva Leona SIMPSON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. George E. BLACKBURN, Clarence D. Blackburn, William Russell Blackburn, Grace M. Kezer, James Merlin Kelsick, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Omer Creighton Blackburn, Estate No. 1144, in the Probate Court of Audrain County, Missouri, Defendants-Appellants.

St. Louis Court of Appeals, Missouri.

April 18, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don C. Carter, Sturgeon, Paul W. Bennett, Vandalia, for appellants.

Granville Collins, Fulton, William W. Van Matre, Jr., Van Matre & Van Matre, Mexico, for respondent.


CLEMENS, Commissioner.

This law suit is an effort by plaintiff Geneva Leona Simpson to be declared an heir of Omer C. Blackburn, who plaintiff claims was her great uncle. The trial court found for plaintiff, and the defendant administrator and other heirs appealed to the Supreme Court, asserting that the issue involved plaintiff's claim to a one-seventh share of a $200,000 estate. The transcript did not affirmatively show the value of the

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