Keen v. Keen
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court. — Now. E. M. Hughes, Judge. (1) Section 2918, Revised Statutes 1899, was not enacted for the purpose of legalizing void marriages, but for the purpose-, plainly expressed, of making legitimate the children or issue of illegal or void marriages.
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Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court. — Now. E. M. Hughes, Judge. (1) Section 2918, Revised Statutes 1899, was not enacted for the purpose of legalizing void marriages, but for the purpose-, plainly expressed, of making legitimate the children or issue of illegal or void marriages. But for this it could serve no purpose, for the obvious reason that the issue of legal marriages, whether ceremonial, under the statute, or at common law, are, by virtue of the statute of descents and distributions, legitimate and inherit as of course from their parents. The above statute is an enabling or…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
This is an action in ejectment to recover an undivided one-half of seventy-one and sixty-seven hundredths acres of land, being a part of United States survey No. 1765, in St. Charles county, Missouri. The petition is in the usual form and the ouster is laid as of March 2, 1901. The answer is a general denial.
Eli Keen is the common source of title. The plain*366tiff claims one-half of the land, subject to the payment of debts, under section 2939, Revised Statutes 1899, on the ground that she is the widow of Eli Keen, and that he died without any child or other descendants in being, capable of…
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