BUTLER v. CENTERRE TRUST CO.

No. 12718.

656 S.W.2d 831 (1983)

Lillian BUTLER, Plaintiff-Appellants, v. CENTERRE TRUST CO., Personal Representative of the Estate of Jack G. Butler, deceased, Suzanne Butler Waterbury Sherer, Jackson Dewitt Waterbury, III, Arthur Barrows Waterbury, Diana Lynn Butler, Jack Griffith Butler, III and James H. Meredith, Defendants-Respondents.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division Two.

August 24, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tony K. Vollers, Frances M. Luehrman, St. Louis, Theodore S. Schechter, Schechter & Watkins, Clayton, for plaintiff-appellant.

James E. Reeves, Ward & Reeves, Caruthersville, for defendant-respondent James H. Meredith.

C. Perry Bascom, St. Louis, for defendant-respondent Centerre Trust Co.


MAUS, Presiding Judge.

By this action the plaintiff seeks a declaration that instruments executed by her deceased father-in-law, Jack G. Butler, did not create an option in favor of James H. Meredith. She further contends that even if an option was created, it is invalid because of the absence of a time limitation upon its exercise. Meredith answered and asked for a judgment declaring the existence of an option and that he had exercised the same. Defendant Centerre...

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