Matter of Estate of Voegele

GARY M. GAERTNER, Judge.

Appellant, Robert B. Rutledge, appeals an order of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis removing him as personal representative of the Estate of Kurt Voegele. We affirm and impose $2,000.00 in damages for filing a frivolous appeal.

The instant appeal is the third time this court has sat in review of this particular case. In the first action, In re Estate of Voegele, 788 S.W.2d 301 (Mo.App., E.D.1990), this court held appellant could not appeal the denial of a petition for admission to probate because he was not an aggrieved party and, therefore, lacked standing to…