Legal Opinion
Brooks v. Gillow
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided April 14, 1958No. Docket 3, 4, Calendar 47,354, 47,355PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKavanagh, J.
These 2 cases were consolidated for trial in the court below, tried together and disposed of together despite the fact that a number of issues in each case are different and the theory of plaintiff in each case is different. I believe that it is necessary to understand the particular questions involved to make separate statements of fact, and will therefore treat the case of Brooks v. Gillow, first and follow with Dorow v. Gillow.
In the Brooks case the plaintiff and appellant is a niece of Edna M. Gillow, deceased. It is her claim that the deceased several weeks prior to her death made a…
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