State Ex Rel. Burns v. Woolfolk
Supreme Court of Missouri
Prohibition. (1) The probate court by the Constitution has jurisdiction “over all matters pertaining to probate business, to granting letters testamentary and of administration, the appointment of guardians and curators of minors and persons of unsound mind, settling the accounts of executors, administrators, curators and guardians,” etc. Mo.
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Prohibition. (1) The probate court by the Constitution has jurisdiction “over all matters pertaining to probate business, to granting letters testamentary and of administration, the appointment of guardians and curators of minors and persons of unsound mind, settling the accounts of executors, administrators, curators and guardians,” etc. Mo. Constitution, art. 6, sec. 34. (2) In conformity and fulfillment of said constitutional authority the General Assembly lias provided and established a ■uniform system of probate courts, conferring upon them jurisdiction over tbe subject-matter of said…
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
A petition was filed in this court by relator, May 3, 1923, praying for a writ of prohibition to restrain the Circuit Court of Lincoln County from removing the relator, Burns, as administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Jacob Linder, deceased, from appointing Albert Linder as such administrator and other proceedings in pursuance of such appointment.
The respondents, Edgar B. Woolfolk, judge of the Circuit Court of Lincoln County, and Albert Linder, oh the-day of June, 1923, of this court, filed their return, setting forth certain proceedings in the Circuit Court of Lincoln County…
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