Supreme Court of Missouri April 15, 1880 (Foster v. Kenrick)

Norton, J.

The only question presented in this case is as to the propriety of the action of the circuit court in sustaining a demurrer to plaintiff’s petition. The petition is as follows: “Now, at this day, comes the plaintiff and for his amended petition states that in the year 1865 one James Stanley departed this life, and left as his only child and heir-at-law, one John Stanley, who, in the