Watson v. Alderson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court. — Hon. E. M. Hughes, Judge. (1) The plaintiff’s judgments were liens upon the interests of these sons in the real estate at their father’s death and at the date of the probate, in common form, of the alleged will.
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Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court. — Hon. E. M. Hughes, Judge. (1) The plaintiff’s judgments were liens upon the interests of these sons in the real estate at their father’s death and at the date of the probate, in common form, of the alleged will. She is a “person interested in the probate of the will” in the sense of the statute, and is consequently entitled in this proceeding to demand that the alleged will shall be established in solemn form, before her liens or apparent title shall be unseated or divested thereby. Smith v. Bradstreet, 16 Pick. 264; In re Langevins Will, 47 N. W. Rep.…
1Opinion of the CourtBrace, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of St. Charles county, sustaining a demurrer to plaintiff’s amended petition.
On or about the fifth day of May, 1895, Benjamin A. Alderson late of said county, deceased, departed this life leaving surviving him as his only heirs at law, his children the plaintiffs Fannie A. Durrell, Anna M. Weems and R. F. Alderson, and the defendants David P. Alderson, Samuel B. Alderson, Bettie Gr. Watkins, William A. Alderson and Mabel H. Alderson.
Afterwards on the fifteenth of May, 1895, an instrument in writing was duly admitted to probate in the…
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