Ladd v. Stephens
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Howard Circuit Court. — Hon. John A. Hockaday, Judge. (1) By section 4470, Revised Statutes 1889, all children of an intestate, who have received in his lifetime any real or personal estate by way of advancement, are required to report said advancements at the time they choose to come into partition with other parceners.
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Appeal from Howard Circuit Court. — Hon. John A. Hockaday, Judge. (1) By section 4470, Revised Statutes 1889, all children of an intestate, who have received in his lifetime any real or personal estate by way of advancement, are required to report said advancements at the time they choose to come into partition with other parceners. They can not wait to see if the fact of their advancements is brought to light, and then claim that by accepting a distributive share of the intestate estate, such acceptance is, in legal effect, a bringing into hotchpot o'f such advancements. They must first…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
— Appeal from the final settlement of W. Speed Stephens and Lon V. Stephens, administrators of the estate of their father, Joseph L. Stephens, deceased.
The parties complaining are Eannie E. Ladd (the former widow, by second marriage, of Joseph L. Stephens, since remarried to William M. Ladd), William M.Ladd her husband, and Curtis G. Stephens and Joseph L. Stephens, minors, children of the second marriage, by their curator, etc., and the defendants are William Speed Stephens and Lon V. Stephens, children of the first marriage, as administrators of their father’s estate
By his first marrige…
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