Cook v. Branine

Action by respondent, plaintiff below, to set aside two deeds executed by respondent to appellant, and to quiet the title to an undivided one-fourth interest in the real estate in question in respondent. The decree below was for respondent and the case is here on appeal.

Kate S. Cook died testate in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 11, 1928, leaving four children surviving, two sons and two daughters. By the terms of her will she devised her property to her children in four equal undivided shares, one-fourth to a son, Dr. Ward H. Cook, one-fourth to a daughter, Lydia Cook Smithmeyer,…