Clark v. Powell

This suit was filed in Chariton county, Missouri, to set aside a purported will, executed by Daisy Shannon, deceased, on grounds of mental incapacity and undue influence. The issue of mental incapacity was not submitted to a jury. Upon the question of undue influence the jury, by its verdict, set aside the will, and from the judgment entered the proponents appealed. The case was tried in Boone county, Missouri, having reached that court by a change of venue.

Daisy Shannon died at her home in Brunswick, Chariton county, Missouri, on April 15, 1941, at the age of fifty-nine years. The will in…