Fauser ex rel. Warren v. Jordan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment establishing a lost, spoliated or destroyed codicil to the last will and testament of the late Frank C. Jordan, of Bourbon county.

Jordan was a single man, seventy-one years of age at his death. *408He made his home with his cousin, Clara Jordan, single, like himself. They had safety-deposit boxes for their valuable papers in Fort Scott, where they resided, and also in Pittsburg. Jordan was an orchardist and also did special work as an appraiser of orchards for the Wabash Railway Company. He was a man of…