Sutter, Guardian v. Rippe

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

Mary Welday, sixty-one years of age, and William Rippe, twelve years older, were, prima facie, married at Pocahontas May 22, 1943.

In 1941 the Probate Court for St. Louis County, Missouri, made a finding that Rippe was so far disordered in mind as to endanger his person, and the person an'd property of others. It was directed that he be apprehended and confined in the St. Louis County Hospital subject to further orders of the Court. In a later adjudication of insanity, Orval C. Sutter, Public Administrator, was appointed guardian of Rippe’s person and estate.…