Idle v. Moody

* NOTE: Opinion filed at September Term, 1938, April 1, 1939; motion for rehearing filed; motion overruled at May Term, 1939, May 2, 1939. This is a statutory will contest. [Sec. 537, R.S. 1929.] The contest is directed to the validity of a codicil to the will of Mary J. Carroll, a resident of Springfield, Missouri, who died May 14, 1936. The cause was tried in the Circuit Court of Greene County. A jury having been waived, the trial court made a finding sustaining the will and the codicil, and, in accordance with the finding, entered judgment establishing such instruments as the last will and…