Vogel ex rel. Vogel v. Mercantile Trust Co.

HENRY I. EAGER, Special Commissioner.

This action involves primarily a construction of § 514, RSMo 1919, generally referred to as the “pretermitted heir” statute. It was substantially amended in 1955 and now appears as § 474.240, RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S. We are not concerned with the amendment. The statute involved here reads as follows: “If any person make his last will, and die, leaving a child or children, or descendants of such child or children in case of their death, not named or provided for in such will, although born after the making of such will, or the death *786of the testator, every such…