Baker v. Spears

Action to contest the will of Emma S. Ganson, deceased. By her will dated April 28, 1942, testatrix disposed of property of the appraised value of $228,978.80. The estate [15] was comprised of many stocks, bonds and mortgages of great diversity of investment, some tangible personal property and cash, and real property in Jackson County, Missouri, and in Latimer County, Oklahoma.

Testatrix was born July 13, 1856, and died November 22, 1944, being then in her eighty-ninth year. Her husband had died in the year 1900. No lineal descendant survived testatrix. A son, John Stevens Ganson, born in…