State Ex Rel. Talbott v. Shain

Belators were plaintiffs in a suit in the circuit court against Mercer County, Missouri; Claude Stanley, Yirgie Boxley and Marie Ogle, as executors of Joseph W. Stanley, deceased; Charles Brummett, Jesse T. Butcher and W. B. Hoover, as individuals; and Charles Brummett, Lew W. Taff and W. B. Hoover, as judges of the County Court of Mercer County. Plaintiffs prayed that an instrument of writing signed by Joseph W. Stanley be decreed as creating a valid, voluntary, executed, irrevocable trust; that the trust be impressed iipon funds, alleged to have come into the hands of said executors; that a…