Blickensderffer v. Hanna
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Laclede Circuit Court. — Eon. L. B. Wood-side} Judge. (1) It is undoubtedly true that probate court judgments are not subject to collateral attack, unless it appears to have exceeded its jurisdiction as attested by its own accompanying record. "When so shown, its judgments possess no validity.
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Appeal from Laclede Circuit Court. — Eon. L. B. Wood-side} Judge. (1) It is undoubtedly true that probate court judgments are not subject to collateral attack, unless it appears to have exceeded its jurisdiction as attested by its own accompanying record. "When so shown, its judgments possess no validity. Langston v. Canterbury, 173 Mo. 131; Hutchison v. Shelley, 133 Mo. 412; St. Louis v. Hollrah, 175 Mo. 85; Desloge v. Tucker, 196 Mo. 601. The order of sale made July 12,1875, on the petition of Atchley, administrator de bonis non, shows that the court found “that the personal estate of the…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
This is an appeal from a decree of tbe circuit court of Laclede county, determining tbe title to two hundred acres of land in Laclede county, to-wit, the northeast quarter and tbe northwest quar*102ter of the southeast quarter, all of section 25, township 34, range 15, to be in the plaintiff.
The defendants are the devisees of Lewis Keedy, who died in said county in 1868, leaving a last will, which was duly probated. By his will he gave the land -in suit to Caroline E. Morelock for her natural life and at her death to her offspring. Mrs. Polly Keedy, the testator’s widow, died in 1870. Mrs.…
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