Boyce's Administrator v. Cayce
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Frangois Circuit Court. The act of 1849 did not deprive Moore of the right to reduce his wife’s interest in the estate of her father into possession, and dispose of the same as he might think best. Session acts of 1849, p. 67. Holmes v. Holmes, 4 Barb. S. C. R. 295.
1Opinion of the CourtG-ambke, Judge
The plaintiff in this suit was administrator .of John Boyce, deceased. One Moore was married to a daughter of the intestate. Moore appointed Ignatius G. Beal his attorney, “to settle and complete the adjustment of his interest in right of his wife in the estate of John Boyce, deceased, and out of it to pay to Milton P. Cayce the amount of two judgments in his favor against Moore.” The County Court of St. Framjois county made an order of partial distribution, directing a sum of money to be paid to the wife of Moore. Beal, the attorney of Moore, directed the payment of the money thus ordered to…
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