Green v. Tittman
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.—Hon. D. D. Fisher, Judge. The defendant Tittman, being public administrator of the city of St. Louis in the year 1888, was ordered by the probate court to take charge of Mrs. Garrison’s estate.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.—Hon. D. D. Fisher, Judge. The defendant Tittman, being public administrator of the city of St. Louis in the year 1888, was ordered by the probate court to take charge of Mrs. Garrison’s estate. The only'asset of the estate consisted of the amount due Florence from her trustee Branch, which, at the time, was somewhat over $20,000. The public administrator after having taken charge of the estate, pursuant to the order of the probate court, made demand upon the trustee for the payment of the amount aforesaid, and, payment not having been made in response…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The public administrator having been duly ordered by the St. Louis probate court to take charge of the estate of Florence G-arrison, deceased, such appointment is a valid one and can not "be ques*376tioned nor attacked collaterally. Wetzell v. Waters, 18 Mo. 396; Headlee v. Cloud, 51 Mo. 301; 1 Woerner’s Am. Law of Administration, sec. 180.
This being the case, it was the clear duty of the public administrator to do just as he did do, to wit, to proceed to recover judgment and then to collect the residue of that judgment remaining after the first payment made thereon and the refusal of Oreen to…
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