Dietrich v. Jones

This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court setting aside an order of a probate court allowing a claim as a preferred one.

The case was tried upon an agreed statements of facts covering some thirty printed pages of the abstract, but a sufficient understanding of the question involved can be gleaned from the following statement.

On January 24, 1920, Lulu Hamill, a resident of Jefferson County, Missouri, was adjudged a person of unsound mind by the probate court of that county, and Roscoe B. Jones was appointed guardian of her person and curator of her estate and as such gave bond in…