MATTER OF ESTATE OF NEWMAN

Nos. Wd 31005-31007.

604 S.W.2d 815 (1980)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Eugene Howard NEWMAN, Incompetent, Kenneth Friedrich, Incompetent, Dorothy Ann Twenter, Incompetent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

September 2, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Hector, Edward M. Berg, Mid-Missouri Legal Services Corp., Columbia, for appellant.

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Reginald H. Turnbull, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Before TURNAGE, P. J., and SHANGLER and MANFORD, JJ.


SHANGLER, Judge.

The probate court sustained the petitions of the guardians that the three wards-Newman, Friedrich and Twenter-previously adjudicated incompetent, displayed symptoms of mental retardation and that the guardians have authority to request placement of the wards in the Marshall State School and Hospital.1 The probate court treated the petitions as adversary probate proceedings [§ 472.140] and appointed counsel for the...

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