Rice v. Rice

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the petition in a will contest case.

The petition alleged that plaintiffs, (appellants here) were sisters of Charles Elbert Rice, who died May 9, 1943 in Barry County, Missouri. That the only heirs of the deceased were the plaintiffs and his widow, Maud Nichels Rice; that on the 17th day of May, 1943, Maud Nichels Rice offered for probate in the probate court of Barry County an instrument proporting to be the last will and’testament of the deceased; that said instrument was duly probated and that said purported will bequeathed all the property of…