Estate of Oden v. Oden

CHARLES B. BLACKMAR, Senior Judge.

Charles B. Oden, Sr. died April 2, 1988, at age 92. His son and personal representative, Charles B. Oden, Jr., brought an action in the Probate Division of the Circuit Court to discover assets of the estate, asking that a deed executed by the decedent conveying a six or seven acre tract in north St. Louis County to deceased and Archie Lee and Margaret E. Sturgess as joint tenants be set aside on grounds of want of legal capacity and undue influence. Unless the deed were set aside, there would be no substantial assets in his estate. The trial court, after…