Jones v. Patterson

This suit was instituted January 15, 1917, to partition 445.76 acres in Platte County. This is the second appeal. The facts developed at the first trial are clearly stated in the opinion by GOODE, J., in 282 Mo. 610 (222 S.W. 1018). In the state of the record the court was unable to decide the case on its merits. It involved a collateral attack upon the judgment of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Kentucky, construing the will and partitioning the lands of William Ragan, deceased. Elihu Park, Laura Park, his wife, and Mary Park, their daughter, then a minor, were joined as codefendants…