In Re West of St. Louis Trust Co. v. Brokaw

This appeal, which comes to the writer on reassignment, is from the judgment of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis denying a preferred status to a claim filed by Frank Brokaw as trustee for Scott Brokaw, a minor, in connection with the liquidation of the West St. Louis Trust Company.

The facts of the case are simple and undisputed.

On April 22, 1924, Scott Brokaw, a minor, by Frank Brokaw, his next friend, recovered a judgment in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis against the National Bottling Company for the sum of $2,000. As a part of its judgment the court included a specific…