Holland v. Martin

The appellant, Robert Lee Holland, seeks to have himself declared the adopted son of Joseph Bailey Martin. If he is successful he inherits Bailey Martin's $40,000 estate to the exclusion of the respondents, Martin's brother, a sister and nieces and nephews.

In brief outline the facts are that Bailey and Mary Martin were married in 1895 and lived on a farm, a part of the Martin's ancestral land, near Williamsburg in Callaway County. Lee Holland's mother was Mrs. Martin's half sister. Mrs. Holland died in Kansas City in 1902 and her husband, Lee's father, Cal Holland, brought Lee to the Martin…