{ "id": 1481749, "name": "Sutter, Guardian, v. Rippe", "name_abbreviation": "Sutter v. Rippe", "decision_date": "1944-04-03", "docket_number": "4-7287", "first_page": "80", "last_page": "83", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "207 Ark. 80" }, { "type": "parallel", "cite": "178 S.W.2d 1008" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "101 S. W. 412", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "82 Ark. 284", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1529074 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/82/0284-01" ] }, { "cite": "97 S. W. 659", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "80 Ark. 451", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1491150 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/80/0451-01" ] }, { "cite": "48 S. E. 837", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.E.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "56 W. Va. 60", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "W. Va.", "case_ids": [ 8637395 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/w-va/56/0060-01" ] }, { "cite": "25 N. E. 731", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.E.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "152 Mass. 359", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Mass.", "case_ids": [ 814069 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/mass/152/0359-01" ] }, { "cite": "80 Va. 873", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Va.", "case_ids": [ 8710097 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/va/80/0873-01" ] }, { "cite": "88 S. W. 833", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "S.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "76 Ark. 122", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1501071 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/76/0122-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 371, "char_count": 4500, "ocr_confidence": 0.484, "pagerank": { "raw": 4.03580807328026e-08, "percentile": 0.05546037626131871 }, "sha256": "860953c15c7d9d6e41b8d8659dd968001ddcd3e719e9ae44b188e99ba020a5e3", "simhash": "1:7e2edd0e9a4b97cb", "word_count": 784 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T21:46:39.394631+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Sutter, Guardian, v. Rippe." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.\nMary Welday, sixty-one years of age, and William Rippe, twelve years older, were, prima facie, married at Pocahontas May 22, 1943.\nIn 1941 the Probate Court for St. Louis County, Missouri, made a finding that Rippe was so far disordered in mind as to endanger his person, and the person an'd property of others. It was directed that he be apprehended and confined in the St. Louis County Hospital subject to further orders of the Court. In a later adjudication of insanity, Orval C. Sutter, Public Administrator, was appointed guardian of Rippe\u2019s person and estate. Shortly thereafter the guardian was directed to place his ward in The Shaver Memorial Home, where he remained from December 18,1941, until May 21, 1943.\nIn a Chancery suit at Pocahontas, Sutter alleged that Rippe was abducted from the Home and brought to Randolph Countjr by Mary Welday, where a marriage ceremony was performed at a time when Rippe was incapable of understanding what was being done.\nWhen the Missouri Probate Court was informed of what had taken place, Sutter, as guardian, was directed to take possession of Rippe \u201cwherever he may be found.\u201d Suit for annulment followed. Rippe was named as a party plaintiff.\nIn preliminary hearings it was admitted by appellee that she had been married twelve times \u2014 four times to one man, other than Rippe. Appellant\u2019s contention is that she is a matrimonial adventuress who \u201cshops around\u201d 'for more than solvent husbands and attaches herself for profit. It is alleged that Rippe was worth more than $50,000. Records indicate the estimate is conservative.\nThe Court made an order that Rippe pay $500 as an attorney\u2019s fee, $450 as suit money and expenses of procuring expert testimony, and $100 per month for the maintenance of appellee. The guardian was directed to make application to the Missouri court for authority to pay the sums awarded. The right of Sutter to proceed further was conditioned upon compliance with the order.\nSince perfection of Sutter\u2019s appeal, death of his ward has been suggested and admitted. The question is, Has the guardian a right to have the issue. determined ?\nSection 1252 of Pope\u2019s Digest provides that in all cases where suit may be instituted, and either plaintiff or defendant may die pending the same, it shall be lawful for the court before which such suit may be pending, on motion of any interested party, to appoint a special administrator, in whose name the cause may-be revived, and said suit or suits shall progress, in all respects, in his name with like effect as if the plaintiff or defendant (as the case may be) had remained in full life.\nThis statute has been held applicable to the Supreme Court. Anglin v. Cravens, 76 Ark. 122, 88 S. W. 833.\nThere are opinions to the effect that, in the absence of a statute, death of a lunatic \u201crepresented by his committee\u201d abates when death occurs pendente lite, \u201c. . . as the committee thereby becomes functus officioSuch a suit, it is said, may be revived and proceeded with in the name of the lunatic\u2019s personal representative or heirs, but any proceedings had after his death before revival are void. See Paxton v. Stuart, 80 Va. 873; Richmond v. Adams National Bank, 152 Mass. 359, 25 N. E. 731.\nIn Straight v. Ice, 56 W. Va. 60, 48 S. E. 837, the holding was that a suit in the name of a committee of an insane person to recover a debt may be revived in the name of the administrator of the insane person, on his death.\nThe holding in Strickland v. Strickland, 80 Ark. 451, 97 S. W. 659, was that while death terminates a divorce suit, yet where property rights depend upon the correctness of a divorce decree, and an appeal, has been taken from it, it is the duty of the appellate court to review the decree in order to settle the property rights. Compare Johnson v. Bates, 82 Ark. 284, 101 S. W. 412.\nWhile in the case at bar property rights are indirectly affected, the trial court did not decree divorce.\nSince no motion to revive has been filed, we do nqt decide whether a guardian\u2019s suit to avoid the marriage of his ward can be revived; nor do we pass upon any of the other issues presented. Our conclusion is that the suit, in its present form, should abate. It is so ordered.\nThe institution is also called Halls Ferry Memorial Sanitarium.", "type": "majority", "author": "Griffin Smith, Chief Justice." } ], "attorneys": [ "Louis Shifrin, H. L. Ponder and H. L. Ponder, Jr., for appellant.", "Harrell Simpson and W. J. Schoonover, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Sutter, Guardian, v. Rippe.\n4-7287\n178 S. W. 2d 1008\nOpinion delivered April 3, 1944.\nLouis Shifrin, H. L. Ponder and H. L. Ponder, Jr., for appellant.\nHarrell Simpson and W. J. Schoonover, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0080-01", "first_page_order": 118, "last_page_order": 121 }