Estate of DeGheest v. Estate of DeGheest

On an appeal from the probate court of the city of St. Louis, a verdict for $60,000.00 principal and $11,000.00 interest was returned in the circuit court of that city against the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company, executor of the estate of May Seullin DeGheest, deceased. The trial court sustained the executor’s motion for a new trial.

Mme. May Seullin DeGheest was a native of St. Louis but married a Frenchman and had lived in Paris, France, for many years. She died on March 23, 1945, over eighty-two years of age. The claimant, a Montreal lawyer, as assignee for collection of M.…