Court Opinion

ID: 8019036
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 02:08:20.996515+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:36:33.018349
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CONCURRING OPINION.
BROWN, J.
I concur in the opinion of my brother Bond in so far as it holds that, under the power conferred by the will of Walter McFarland, Sr., the widow was fully authorized to sell less than a fee simple title in said testator’s lands, and that her deed to Abraham McFarland and Walter McFarland, Jr., passed a vested remainder to those parties and was in form legal and valid. [Dewein v. Hooss, 237 Mo. 23.]
I am, however, convinced that the widow was not authorized by the will to give away the land of the testator. The evidence is conflicting as to whether there was a consideration paid by Abraham and Walter McFarland, Jr., for the deed which they received from the widow, and not finding said evidence sufficient to warrant us in overturning the judgment of the circuit court, I concur in the result of the majority opinion affirming said judgment.