Geerdts v. Riesenberg
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Now. O’Neill Ryan, Judge. The descent and distribution of personal or movable property in all cases where its owner died intestate is governed exclusively by the law of the deceased owner’s last domicile. Story on the Conflict of Laws (8 Ed.), p. 677; 2 Kent Comm., 429; 22 Am. and Eng.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Now. O’Neill Ryan, Judge. The descent and distribution of personal or movable property in all cases where its owner died intestate is governed exclusively by the law of the deceased owner’s last domicile. Story on the Conflict of Laws (8 Ed.), p. 677; 2 Kent Comm., 429; 22 Am. and Eng. Ency. of Law, p. 1355, sec. 10; Schouler on Ex. and Adm., sec. 16; Woemer on Adm., star page 360; Dicey on Conflict Laws (1896), page 677; Richardson v. Lewis, 21 Mo. App. 531-534; Ennis v. Smith, 55 U. S. (14 How. 400); Russell V. Madden, 95 111. 485; Cooper y.…
1Opinion of the CourtBland, P. J.
Harry Reisenberg, a resident of the city of St. Louis, died testate in said city, June 16, 1902. After making certain bequests to charitable institutions, his will provides as follows:
“3. I further give and bequeath the following *311named sums of money to the following named persons, to-wit:
The sum of two thousand dollars to my brother, Carl Riesenberg, of Aachen, Germany, and in the event that he should die before me and his wife, Auguste, should then be. living, to his said wife Auguste, for and during her natural life, and after her death or, if she should also have died before my death, to…
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