Cockrell v. First National Bank of Kansas City

This is a suit wherein plaintiffs ask for a judicial construction of the last will and testament of Thomas L. Cockrell, deceased. Plaintiffs are beneficiaries under the will and defendants are the executors and trustees named in the will and a number of them are also beneficiaries. The trial court entered a decree from which the executors and trustees, but not the beneficiaries, appealed.

First we will describe the parties plaintiffs and defendants. The plaintiffs are Charles C. Cockrell and Francis Marion Cockrell, half-brothers of the testator, and Thomas Marion Cockrell and Ella Etta…