Rice v. Odd Fellows Lodge No. 85

By order of this Court, pursuant to an agreement of counsel, the above two cases were consolidated and submitted to this Court on briefs. Such consolidation was well justified, since the two numbered cases have come to this Court by two separate appeals .from the same judgment below.

The ease before the Newton County Circuit Court was a suit by L. D. Rice, trustee of what was left of the estate of Simeon S. Jobe, who had died testate some twenty-one years before this suit was instituted against the trustees of Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 85, of Neosho, Missouri, and the unknown…