Garrison v. Hight

BARRETT, Commissioner.

Under the will of Charles E. Garrison the probate court and on appeal the circuit court have decreed, subject to a life estate in the testator’s wife, that “the successor to the descendible interest” in 40 acres of land in Dunklin County is his daughter Marilyn Rae Garrison the residuary beneficiary. Gladys Garrison Hight, a daughter by a first marriage, has appealed and contends that these judgments are contrary to the manifest intention of the testator and that, subject to her stepmother’s life estate, she should be decreed the owner of this particular forty-acre tract…