BRECKNER v. PRESTWOOD

No. 40281.

600 S.W.2d 52 (1980)

Kenneth BRECKNER, Executor Under the Last Will and Testament of Ruth Margaret Quinn, A/K/A Ruth Quinn, Ruth M. Quinn, Deceased, dated March 14, 1975, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Julia Alyson PRESTWOOD et al., Mrs. Ada Strayhorn Cain, Defendant-Appellant, Delmar Baptist Church, Defendant-Respondent, Missouri Baptist Children's Home, Defendant-Respondent, Home for Aged Baptists, Defendant-Respondent, The Salvation Army of St. Louis, Defendant-Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Four.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied May 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis, Rice, Tucker, Allen & Chubb, Henry F. Luepke, Jr., Andrew Rothschild, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.

Frank Susman, Barbara L. Beran, Susman, Schermer, Wilier & Rimmel, St. Louis, for Delmar Baptist Church.

Richard 0. Roberts, St. Louis, for Salvation Army.

Jay G. Newquist, St. Louis, for Kenneth Breckner.


Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied May 19, 1980.

SATZ, Judge.

This case involves a construction of two provisions of the Last Will and Testament of Ruth Quinn, Deceased. Appellant, Ada S. Cain, and Respondents, Delmar Baptist Church, Missouri Baptist Children's Home, Home for Aged Baptists and The Salvation Army of St. Louis, are named beneficiaries in the will. The will was drafted by an attorney. The attorney and Mrs. Quinn had...

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