In Re Estate of Moore

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of St. Louis dismissing a proceeding appealed from the probate court.

The proceeding dismissed was initiated by the probate court which of its own motion issued a citation to Martha Chappel, respondent here, as guardian of Fountain S. Moore, a person of unsound mind. Moore had been maintained and supported by the City of St. Louis at its Sanitarium for the insane from October 30, 1933, to July 31, 1938, and the City had, prior to the present proceeding, unsuccessfully sought to collect therefor. See In re Moore's Guardianship (Mo. App.), 148…