Doerner v. Doerner
Decision Date | 26 March 1901 |
Citation | 61 S.W. 801,161 Mo. 399 |
Parties | DOERNER v. DOERNER et al. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from St. Louis circuit court; L. B. Valliant, Judge.
Action by Charles Augustus Doerner against Eliza and Frances Doerner. From the judgment, Eliza Doerner appeals. Modified.
Suit for partition (brought March, 1897), and for sale of certain real estate, and an accounting for rents and profits, and for general relief. Whether the suit could be maintained depended on the provisions of the will of the testator, Ludwig Seitz, who died May 12, 1868. The evidence shows that, at the date of Ludwig Seitz's will (March, 1861), defendant Eliza Doerner had one child living, defendant Alwine Weber. At the date of the death of Ludwig Seitz she had three children living, defendants Alwine Weber, Emilie Zuendt, and Hans Egmund Doerner (born two months afterwards). Thereafter three other children were born to her, to wit, the plaintiff, Charles Augustus Doerner, the defendant Cecilie Jay, and this respondent, the youngest child, Frances Doerner, who attained 21 years of age February 9, 1897, and prior to the institution of this suit. Louisa Seitz died January, 1894. The testator makes provision for his wife by his will, in the following clause: He next provides for his son Charles Seitz by giving him a large amount of personal property and several parcels of real estate. Then follow the provisions of the will with respect to the testator's daughter Eliza Doerner and her children, by which the property described in plaintiff's petition, and which is now sought to be partitioned, is devised as follows: ...
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