Woodson v. Woodson

This is a suit brought by the two plaintiffs-appellants, collateral kinsmen of Margaret J. Rendlen, who died July 7,1948, to contest her will dated December 11,1939. The petition was in two counts. The first charged that the testatrix over five years later on March 31, 1945, changed, obliterated and spoliated the will, without reattestation, in such manner as to have the effect of revoking and nullifying it under Mo, R. S. 1949, §468.240, Y.A.M.S. This first count was in equity praying “orders and decrees” of the court. Tbe second count pleaded in the alternative that if the changes did not…