Thompson v. Moseley

This is an action in equity to enforce an oral agreement to adopt plaintiff, and seeking a decree that plaintiff is the adopted child of Carl Moseley, deceased, and the sole legal heir of and owner of all of the property, real and personal, of Carl Moseley. Such a decree was entered by the trial court and defendant Errett Moseley has appealed.

[1] This appeal is before us on the record proper only, and the sole ground, which could here be and is raised, is that the facts pleaded were not sufficient to entitle plaintiff to the decree entered. [See Presbyterian Orphanage v. Fitterling, 342 Mo.…