Robinson v. Crutcher
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. — Hon. W. T. Bag-land, Judge. (1) A grantee under a deed or a legatee or devisee under a will must be capable of taking and bolding property. Neither inert matter nor a symbol representing inert matter, can be a grantee under a deed or legatee under a will. There is an entire want of capacity to accept or reject, to take or to hold. The public school fund and the township school fund are mere names. They designate simply moneys.
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Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. — Hon. W. T. Bag-land, Judge. (1) A grantee under a deed or a legatee or devisee under a will must be capable of taking and bolding property. Neither inert matter nor a symbol representing inert matter, can be a grantee under a deed or legatee under a will. There is an entire want of capacity to accept or reject, to take or to hold. The public school fund and the township school fund are mere names. They designate simply moneys. These moneys themselves cannot be identified or ascertained except by tracing them to their different sources. The county school…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The heirs of Temple B. Robinson, deceased, brought this suit to have the fifth, sixth and seventh clauses of his will construed. These provisions concern the disposition of two-thirds of the - testator’s property. The defendants are the executor of the estate, the judges of the county court, and the treasurer of Monroe County. The judgment of the circuit court *7was in favor of the validity of the will. Plaintiffs appealed from this finding.
Temple B. Robinson had never married. He died in Monroe Oonnty, in January, 1914. The petition alleges the invalidity of the provisions of . his will…
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