IN RE ESTATE OF JUST

Nos. 42781, 42782.

618 S.W.2d 208 (1981)

In re ESTATE of Cornelius A. JUST. The BOATMEN'S NATIONAL BANK OF ST. LOUIS, Trustee, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Kathleen H. JUST, Judy May Just, Unknown and/or Unborn Persons who may be Descendants of Judy Just, Unknown and/or Unborn Persons who may be Heirs-At-Law of Quentin A. Just or of the Descendants of Quentin A. Just, other than Descendants of Gustav Bischoff Just, Defendants-Respondents, Gustav Bischoff Just, Quentin Gustav Just, and Unknown and/or Unborn Persons who may be Descendants of Gustav Bischoff Just, Defendants-Appellants.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Two.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied June 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Travis, St. Louis, for defendants-appellants.

Michael D. Mulligan, St. Louis, for plaintiff-respondent.

Francis X. Duda, St. Louis, for defendant-respondent, Judy May Just.

Charles J. McMullin, St. Louis, for defendant-respondent, Kathleen H. Just.


Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied June 12, 1981.

GUNN, Judge.

In this will construction case, the trial court ruled that the appellants, descendants of the testator, had been disinherited. The two fundamental points raised on appeal are: that any language of intent to disinherit was totally enervated by appearing only in inoperative provisions of the will; that disinheritance of an heir does not serve to disinherit the heir's descendants...

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