Missouri Court of Appeals March 19, 1889 (Shields v. Sharp)

Biggs, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

On the fourteenth day of June, 1869, the deceased, James Johnson, Jr., took a policy of insurance on his life for the sum of five thousand dollars and by the terms of the policy the amount was made payable to the children of the assured, viz: “Anna, Yenia, Bessie, Robert and Eddie Johnson, share and share alike, his, her or their guardian, executors,