McCaleb v. Shantz

COIL, Commissioner.

The will of Vesta L. Greer devised a one-seventh interest in each of two parcels, and all of another piece, of St. Louis real estate to von Gemmingen & Co., Inc., a Missouri corporation, organized under the general business corporation laws. In proceedings to quiet title and to partition, residuary de-visees claimed that the devises to the corporation were void because prohibited by the Missouri Constitution and that, consequently, the real estate in question was distributable to the residuary devisees other than the corporation. It is thus apparent that the essential…