Arterburn v. Meadows

HERBERT LASKY, Special Judge.

This is a will contest case. The amount in dispute exceeds $15,000, so we have jurisdiction.

Vera V. Bland, a resident of Sullivan County, Missouri, died in a hospital there January 10, 1967, at the age of 81. On January 17, 1967, there was admitted to probate in Sullivan County a document dated January 4, 1967, purporting to be the will of Vera V. Bland. By its provisions her brother, Milton H. Wall, would receive approximately $53,000, being all of her property except for a bequest to another brother, Harry Wall, and $1,000 to each of two sisters.

The plaintiff,…