Baker v. Estate of Smith

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Buchanan county. Missouri whereby the trial court sustained a motion to dismiss the appellant's appeal from an order of the probate court of that county. The order of the probate court overruled appellant's motion to dismiss the proceedings in the matter of Martha B. Smith, a person of unsound mind.

Clark II. Smith and Martha B. Baker were married in Los Angeles, California on November 1, 1899. A few months after the marriage they established their home in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1917, Mrs. Smith was stricken with a malady which…