Keegan's Guardian v. United States Trust Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

John Thomas Keegan is an adult person of unsound mind, and a resident of Newton county, Missouri. By *331appropriate proceedings in the prohate court of that county, it having jurisdiction of the subject malter and of the person of the incompetent, William Green was appointed the fiduciary of the estate of the incompetent, called under the statutes of Missouri a statutory guardian, and corresponding to what our law terms a committee. The fiduciary qualified by executing the required bond and took charge of the estate of his ward.

Some time afterward a…