Nies, Admx. v. Stone, Exec.

The real issue presented in this case for review, stripped of verbiage of extraneous matters in pleading and in statements appearing in briefs filed, is as to whether or not a man having no descendants in being can by his will dispose of his personal estate as to deprive his widow of title to the one-half interest in said personal estate that is provided for in section 325, Revised Statutes, Missouri, 1929.

Section 325 reads as follows:

"Husband dying without children, widow, how endowed.:—When the husband shall die without any child or other descendants in being, capable of inheriting, his…