Underwood v. Gillespie

PREWITT, Judge.

Plaintiff brought an action for partition contending that she and defendants were co-owners as tenants in common of 100 acres in Stoddard County, Missouri. Defendants denied that plaintiff had any interest in the property and asked the court to quiet title in them. The trial court found that plaintiff owned an undivided one-third of the property and decreed partition.

Plaintiff claims that she and defendants acquired their interests in the property as residuary devisees under the will of Zellk Bacon. Mrs. Bacon died February 10, 1974. Defendants claim they alone own the land…