State Ex Rel. Holthaus v. Holtcamp

This is an original proceeding by prohibition. Our preliminary rule having issued, respondents filed a return in the nature of a demurrer to the petition for the writ, and thus we have the issues made. The situation may be stated, briefly, as follows:

The respondent Holteamp .is Judge of the probate court of the city of St. Louis, Missouri. On February 6, 1925, respondent Elmo Gr. Holthaus filed an information before said probate court alleging that relatrix Fredericka Holthaus was in the city of St. Louis, and by appropriate averments prayed for an inquiry into her sanity, charging that she…