Osborn v. Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis

GARY M. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Appellants, the children of Katherine Dick, appeal from a decision of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis denying their petition for specific performance of an oral agreement to make a testamentary disposition of certain property. We affirm.

On February 18, 1970, Stratford Morton, the father of Katherine Dick and husband to Elise Morton, passed away.1 Pursuant to the terms of his will, Stratford Morton’s estate was split equally between Mrs. Dick and Mrs. Morton. This estate included two tracts of property, a 245 acre tract in Franklin County known as…