Tapp v. Tapp

FLANIGAN, Judge.

On January 10,1970, Ralph Tapp, 91, died intestate in St. Clair County, Missouri, leaving an estate appraised at $89,306.64. Letters of administration were issued by the probate court of that county. During the pendency of the administration John Wesley Tapp, a/k/a John Wesley Oliver, respondent in this court, filed in the probate court a “Petition for Establishment of Right to Inheritance.”1 In that petition John Wesley Tapp claimed that he was the sole natural child of the decedent. The petition was opposed by three nieces and two nephews of the decedent. They are the…