Johnson v. Woodard

This is an appeal from an order and judgment of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis dismissing a petition for statutory partition of real estate. The St. Louis Court of Appeals, to which plaintiff originally appealed, transferred the case to this Court on the ground that the case involves title to real estate within the meaning of Constitution, Art. V, § 3, V.A.M.S. Johnson v. Woodard, Mo.App., 343 S.W.2d 646.

Stella Johnson’s amended petition for partition alleged that Sara C. Young, fee simple owner of the land, devised it by her last will and testament to Mary V. Woodard, Stella…