112 Mo. App. 195 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1905
The contest in this case is over the appointment of a curator of the estate of Mamie P. Looney, a minor child and the daughter of J. R. Looney, deceased. T. J. Browning was appointed curator of the minor’s estate by the probate court of Oape Girardeau county. About a year earlier he had been appointed administrator of the estate of the deceased father of the minor. Browning was also the guardian of the person of the minor at the time he was appointed curator. The mother of the child died in childbirth and the father took the child immediately afterwards to
The question for decision is whether an appeal lies from" an order of the probate court appointing a curator for the estate of a minor. The chapter of the Revised Statutes respecting guardians and curators says appeals shall he allowed from any final order or judgment of the probate court in matters arising under the chapter, with the same effect and in the same manner as appeals are allowed in cases of administration of estates of deceased persons. R. S. 1899, ch. 34, sec. 3535. For the appellant it is contended the appointment of a curator is a final order or judgment within the meaning of that section, because, it disposes of the question of the right to the care and custody of the minor’s estate. There are cases in other States which sanction that proposition. Senseman’s Appeal, 21 Pa. St. 331; Ex parte Miller, 109 Calif. 643; Issacs v. Taylor, 3 Dana (Ky.) 600; Weisne’s Appeal, 39 Conn. 537. Our statute relating to guardians and curators is in pari materia, with the administration statute and the two groups of laws receive as
The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.