Grooms v. Grooms

WILLIAM M. KIMBERLIN, Special Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Missouri, wherein that Court set aside the order of the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Missouri, sustaining a motion of Edward B. Grooms, movant-appellant, to correct the Probate Court’s record concerning the filing of a duplicate copy of petition and executed copy of summons.

The basic facts are not in dispute and the Court will state only sufficient facts to present the issues involved.

Edward B. Grooms, movant-appellant, on April 17, 1958, was riding as a passenger in an…