State of Missouri Ex Rel. v. Davis

Appeal from: Macon County Circuit Court.

DEW, J.

Upon the petition of the respondent herein and upon a hearing thereon, the court below issued its peremptory writ of mandamus directing appellant, probate judge, to certify to the circuit court, “the same as on appeal”, the files and transcript in a proceeding allowing a certain claim against the estate of a decedent. ^he successor probate judge has appealed from said judgment.

John O. Jones, a resident of Macon County, Missouri, died intestate July 22, 1943. Upon the application of Thomas H. Williams, a second cousin of the deceased, the latter…