Supreme Court of Missouri June 19, 1906 (Meier v. Buchter)

LAMM, J.

Plaintiffs sued on May 5, 1903, to set aside the will of Theodore Albert Thomas, charging undue influence and fraud — the product of a conspiracy between proponents — and testamentary incapacity. A verdict for proponents being coerced by a mandatory instruction, nisi, contestants appeal, assigning error in the exclusion of testimony and in the giving of said instruction.