Shaw v. Addison

The decedent, John Heber Duro, was born in England in 1881 and came to the United States and to Des Moines in 1903. For a time he worked as a coal miner and later engaged'in various businesses, including what appears to be a dominant relationship with various corporations engaged chiefly wilh coal-mining operations. He also engaged extensively in the buying and selling of bonds, stocks, and securities through various brokerage concerns. In 1907 he was married to Ella Gaedke and to this marriage one child, Louise, was boi*n. His wife, died in 1919, when Louise was about seven years old,…