Prior v. Kiso

96 Mo. 303
CourtSupreme Court of Missouri
DecidedOctober 15, 1888
StatusPublished
Cited by14 cases

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Bluebook
Prior v. Kiso, 96 Mo. 303 (Mo. 1888).

Opinion

Sherwood, J.

This case has been here before. Its first appearance is recorded in 81 Mo. 241. There were several defendants then ; there is but one now. John C. Kiso was one of them. Judgment went in their favor in [306]*3061879, and the plaintiff brought up the case on writ of error in 1880. While it was pending in this court, and on January 12, 1881, John C. Kiso died, and his death was suggested at the October term of that year, and at the same term the cause was attempted to be revived as to him, by entering, by consent, the appearance of his alleged executrix, Hannah C. Kiso. At that time the cause had not been submitted, nor as appears from the ' record, was it submitted until after such substitution and revivor. When errors were assigned, the cause was submitted at the October term, 1883, and resulted in the judgment being reversed and the cause being remanded March 24, 1884.

The cause went back to the circuit court in the year last mentioned, and on the first day of the May term, 1884, the plaintiff in open court dismissed his suit as to all of the defendants in the cause, except the defendant John C. Kiso. It turned out that Hannah Kiso had never been the executrix of the will of her deceased husband, but on October 23,1884, she took out letters of administration with the will annexed. At the December term next following, the death of the defendant John 0. Kiso was suggested, but by whom the suggestion was made does not appear, but on the same day she entered her appearance in the cause in the circuit court, in her capacity as testamentary administratrix, waived service of scire facias upon her, to the same extent as if she had been served with the writ, but not otherwise, and by special motion, in the nature of a plea to the jurisdiction, moved the court to dismiss the cause as to her. The motion was as follows :• “ And now comes Hannah Kiso, widow of John C. Kiso, deceased, and administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of John C. Kiso, and hereby waiving the service of any writ of scire facias upon her as said administratrix herein, enters her appearance as such administratrix to the same extent as though she had been duly served with process, but not otherwise, reserving to herself all [307]*307and any rights and defenses in law and equity in this cause that may hereafter become necessary and proper. And the said Hannah Kiso, administratrix as aforesaid, respectfully shows to this court that she is not a proper or necessary party to this suit; that at the December term, 1879, of this court, there was a final judgment in favor of said John O. Kiso and all the other defendants herein; that thereupon an appeal was taken to the supreme court of this state by the plaintiff herein, and that pending said appeal in said supreme court, the said John C. Kiso, on the twelfth day of January, 1881, died in Osage county, Missouri, leaving a will, and that no letters testamentary were ever granted to any one by the probate court of Osage county until the twenty-third day of October, 1884, when the said Hannah Kiso took out such letters ; that at no time prior to final decision of this cause in the supreme court was this Hannah Kiso, or any one else, made a proper party to this suit in said court, nor was there in truth or fact any legal representative, executor or administratrix of the estate of John C. Kiso, appointed or in existence, except as herein-before set out; and Hannah Kiso now says, that by the death of the said John C. Kiso, and the failure of plaintiff to bring in by proper process the heirs and legal representatives of said John C. Kiso, the cause of action as to said John C. Kiso wholly abated, and that there is no judgment, legal or valid, against said John C. Kiso in said court, and the judgment heretofore rendered in this cause in this court is final and absolute, and a bar to any other proceedings against this Hannah Kiso, administratrix with the will annexed of John C. Kiso, deceased. And the said Hannah Kiso further says, that the plaintiff herein had full knowledge of the death of John C. Kiso shortly after his said decease ; that a final decision was rendered- in the supreme court of Missouri on March 20, 1884, and that this Hannah Kiso was never legally, or by her consent or with her knowledge made a party to said suit heretofore in any court, and never [308]*308authorized any one to enter her appearance, and was not in-truth and fact at any time executrix of the last will of John C. Kiso, deceased, but became the administratrix with the will annexed, and obtained letters of administration from the probate court of Osage county, Missouri, on the twenty-third day of October, 1884, and that no letters of administration were granted to any one on said' estate of John C. Kiso prior to said date, and the said probate court of Osage county, Missouri, had, during all that time and then and there, the sole jurisdiction and authority to grant and issue such letters ; and by reason of the premises the said Hannah Kiso says that plaintiff should not be permitted to further proceed against her, and that she may be hence discharged with costs.” This motion was duly verified by affidavit of said Hannah.

On the second day of the May term, 1885, she filed an affidavit of her attorney in support of her previous motion to dismiss, which affidavit is the following: “Now comes Hannah Kiso, administratrix of the estate of John C. Kiso, deceased, by Rudolph Hirzel, her attorney, and respectfully shows to the court in support of the motion to dismiss as to her heretofore filed in this court, that the death of her late husband John C. Kiso, formerly defendant herein, was suggésted at the October term, 1881, of the supreme court of Missouri, and that at the same term on the records of said court the appearance of Hannah Kiso, as executrix of John C. Kiso, was entered by J. Ed. Belch, Esq., who was and claimed to be one of the attorneys of John 0. Kiso, deceased, but who in truth and fact never was employed by or the attorney of the said Hannah Kiso; that said cause was finally decided at the October term, 1883, of said supreme court, and that the said Hannah Kiso, neither in her own person nor as administratrix was ever made a party to this suit, and that the said Hannah Kiso was never brought into court and never became the personal representative of John C. Kiso, until October, 1884; [309]*309that since the motion to dismiss was filed in the conrt herein at the December term, 1884, of this court and the ■cause continued on said motion, the plaintiff herein filed, in the supreme court of this state, his motion to set aside the judgment rendered, and to make Hannah Kiso administratrix and a party to this suit, which said motion was by said court on the eleventh day of May, 1885, overruled, per curiam, and that since the death of John C. Kiso was suggested, as above stated in this cause, at the October term, 1881, of the supreme court of this state, more than three regular terms of this court have elapsed, and that plaintiff is now barred to bring in the said Hannah Kiso, administratrix, as a party to said suit, by reason and force of the statute in such ■cases made and provided, and that this court has no jurisdiction of the subject-matter of said suit, nor of the ■said Hannah Kiso, administratrix, as hereinbefore shown, and in the motion hereinbefore filed set forth. Hannah Kiso, administratrix.”

“Rudolph Hirzel, being duly sworn on his oath says: That he is the sole attorney of Hannah Kiso, administratrix, cum testamento annexo, of the estate of Jno. 0.

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