Webb City Undertaking Co. v. Sinclair

[1] This action is to recover dividends alleged to have been illegally paid. The appellant filed a claim in the Probate Court of Jasper County, Missouri, against the estate of A. K. Mills, deceased, in the sum of $1850, which claim was allowed by the Probate Court on July 1, 1948. Respondent appealed to the Circuit Court of Jasper County, Missouri, where it was tried and judgment rendered in favor of defendant, respondent here, on the 2d day of December, 1948. From this judgment the plaintiff, below, appeals to this court.

[2] We will refer to appellant as plaintiff and respondent as defendant…