Howard v. Strode
Citation | 146 S.W. 792 |
Parties | HOWARD v. STRODE. |
Decision Date | 21 March 1912 |
Court | United States State Supreme Court of Missouri |
Plaintiff married a man by the name of "Henry Howard" at Decatur, Ill., January 15, 1883. They never lived together for any considerable time, and she claimed that her husband was the decedent "Laclede J. Howard" of St. Louis, Mo., who died in 1903. In 1883 decedent was president of a particular corporation, and was claimed to have made entries of orders for goods in the corporation's books on the day of such alleged marriage, and also to have entered minutes of an annual meeting of the corporation's stockholders held in St. Louis on January 16, 1883. Held, that such entries in decedent's handwriting were admissible after his death, and the death of all the others present at the meeting, to show that decedent was not in Decatur, Ill., on the date of his alleged marriage.
13. CORPORATIONS (§§ 196, 298) — RECORDS— MINUTES.
It is the duty of a corporation to keep a record of the minutes of the meetings of its stockholders and directors showing the date when the meetings were held and who was present, and it is the duty of the secretary to prepare and enter such minutes in the record.
14. MARRIAGE (§ 50)—EVIDENCE.
Evidence held sufficient to warrant a finding that plaintiff was never married to decedent.
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; W. M. Kinsey, Judge.
Motion by Mary Howard against Garrard Strode, public administrator of Laclede J. Howard, deceased, for a final settlement of the estate and a delivery to her of a child's share of the personal property. From an order denying her petition, affirmed on appeal to the circuit court, she appeals. Affirmed.
This cause was begun by filing on August 23, 1905, the following motion in the probate court of the city of St. Louis:
After hearing evidence on the motion, the same was denied by the probate judge. Upon appeal to the circuit court, the matter was tried de novo by the court upon the evidence, and judgment rendered against plaintiff, from which judgment she appeals.
There was a vast amount of evidence given on both sides, making in all some 1,200 pages of record. It will be unnecessary to detail the testimony. A short outline of the facts will suffice as a preliminary statement. The plaintiff claimed in 1883 she resided in Palmer, a small town in Illinois; that she was married to Laclede J. Howard under the name of "Henry Howard" in Decatur, Ill., on January 15, 1883; that within a very few days he left her; that they again met the following spring, and were together two days,...
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