Beck v. State

The following opinion was filed April 17, 1928:

While not formally dissenting in the two companion cases, I wish to herein express myself on propositions involved in all three.

I cannot agree with either of two main propositions asserted as the basis for the majority opinion, namely, that there was a voluntary payment of the amounts sought to be recovered by the individual petitioners, or that the original determination by the county court in the hearing on inheritance was so binding and conclusive that it could not thereafter be changed.

The executors of the estate, on behalf of the estate, and…