Ex parte Zorn

— Habeas corpus instituted in this court on February 23,1912, to secure the release of petitioner from Dr. C. R. Woodson’s sanitarium in St. Joseph, Buchanan county, Missouri, where it is alleged he is unlawfully restrained of his liberty.

The sole issue in the case is the alleged invalidity of a judgment of the probate court of Jackson county, entered on October 29, 1909, adjudging the petitioner insane and appointing a guardian of his person and curator of his estate, under the provisions of article 19, chapter 2, Revised Statutes 1909.

When the information upon which petitioner was adjudged…