Farris v. Burchard

BROWN, C.

This case' is founded upon section 650 of the Revised Statutes of 1899. It was instituted in the circuit court for Gasconade county December 23, 1907, and has been once before to this court upon the appeal of defendants from a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, which was reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial. [Farris v. Burchard, 242 Mo. 1.] The question in that appeal was whether, upon the records of the probate court for that county as they then appeared, the will of James Johnson under which the plaintiffs claim their title to an undivided fourth of the land involved,…