LEWIS v. SEARLES

No. 54528.

452 S.W.2d 153 (1970)

Hattie L. LEWIS, Appellant, v. Janice SEARLES et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

April 13, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Sickal, Blanton, Blanton & Rice, Sikeston, for appellant.

James M. Reeves, Ward & Reeves, Caruthersville, for respondents, J. R. (Dick) Lewis and Lilbourn Z. Lewis.


HENRY I. EAGER, Special Commissioner.

In this declaratory judgment suit plaintiff seeks to have the title to certain real estate quieted in her in fee and, in the process, to have a will construed. We have jurisdiction since the title to real estate is directly involved. The trial court adjudged that plaintiff had a life estate in the whole of the property, and a fee simple interest in an undivided one-third thereof, subject to the life estate. After an unavailing...

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