State ex rel. Gilbreath v. Bunce
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Cooper Circuit Court.—Hon. George ~W. Miller, Judge. The State of Arkansas possesses exclusive sovereignty and jurisdiction within its own territory, over all persons resident therein.
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Error to Cooper Circuit Court.—Hon. George ~W. Miller, Judge. The State of Arkansas possesses exclusive sovereignty and jurisdiction within its own territory, over all persons resident therein. Story on Con. of Laws, 7th Ed., § 18; Minor v. Cardwell, 37 Mo. 350. Relator being a citizen of Arkansas,- and a minor, the probate court, by the terms and for the purposes contemplated in the act, was possessed of jurisdiction over him, and properly exercised the power conferred in removing his disability of non-age. The status of every person is determined and governed by the law of his domicil.…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, C. J.
Suit upon the defendant’s bond as curator of the estate of the relator. The petition avers that the relator, Willie Gilbreath, is an infant, under the age of twenty-one years, and is now a resident of Washington county, in the State of Arkansas, and that Bunce is the curator of his estate, acting under appointment of the probate court of Cooper county, Missouri, and has in his hands, as curator, notes and money amounting to the sum of two thousand dollars; that the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas by an act approved February 18, 1869, entitled “ An act to confer upon the probate and…
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