Brownfield v. Brownfield

249 S.W.2d 389 (1952)

BROWNFIELD et al.

v.

BROWNFIELD.

No. 42713.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

June 9, 1952.

Francis C. Flynn, St. Louis, Murtha J. Hackett, St. Louis, Lawson Romjue, Macon, H. K. West, Brookfield, for appellants.

C. B. Burns, Brookfield, Waldo Edwards, David Collins, Macon, for respondent.

TIPTON, Judge.

This is an action by the appellants, who are two nephews, a niece and a cousin of Mary Margaret Brownfield, deceased, to contest her will dated April 26, 1924. The trial court directed a verdict which declared this to be deceased's last will at the close of the evidence…