Hester v. Kemper Military School

DUNKLIN, Chief Justice.

B. M. Hester and wife, Mrs. Mollie M. Hester, while residing in Wichita Falls, Texas, put their son, B. M. Hester, Jr., in the Kemper Military School, in Booneville, Missouri. At the close of the school year of 1931-1932, which was the boy’s second year in the school, there was a balance owing to the school of $339.18.

On August 28th, 1932, B. M. Hester addressed a letter to Major A. B. Bates, vice president and superintendent of the school, at Booneville, telling him that he was very anxious for his son to finish another term in the school, and that he would make a…