White v. Fitzgerald

BROADDUS, Judge.

This proceeding is for a writ of prohibition and originated in the Circuit Court. The facts of the case are:

On September 30, 1948, Lydia Cleveland, administratrix of the estate of Hollis C. White, deceased, filed in the Probate Court of DeKalb County, Missouri, an affidavit for discovery of assets. Therein she alleged that petitioner in the instant case, Hollis Newcomb White, has “concealed or is otherwise wrongfully withholding certain property of said estate, being particularly $2000 in cash and currency; that all the foregoing property is now in the possession of the said…