Steele v. Cross

The plaintiffs in this case are the brothers and sisters, or their successors in interest (except Hugh H. Pixlee), of William T. Pixlee who died testate, a resident of Clay County, Missouri, on November 28, 1921. At the time of his death he owned 4,400 acres of land in Lyon and Greenwood Counties, Kansas, most of which was oil producing land. In a manner hereinafter detailed decedent’s only child, Maude Pixlee Shoemaker, shortly after her father’s death, became a life tenant in an undivided one half of said land. From that time until her death on December 23, 1950, she, or her guardian,…