Legal Opinion
Stringer v. Gamble
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided January 4, 1909No. Docket No. 76PublishedCited by 11 opinions
Appeal from Oakland; Lockwood, J., presiding. Bill by Marshall L. Stringer, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Fannie Stephens, deceased, against John Gamble, administrator of the estate of Thomas Stephens, deceased, and others, to enforce a lien for the payment of certain annuities. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
The position of appellees is stated in the following language taken from the brief:
“ In the former trial I claimed, and I again claim, that, when Thomas Stephens accepted the property under the will, he took it charged with the conditions imposed by the will, but his position was not the same as if he had entered into a written agreement with his father or his mother by which he agreed to pay a certain sum of money and furnish certain products of the farm, but, so far as the performance of the conditions is concerned, he was personally liable upon a contract, either express or implied, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stringer v. Stevens' EstateMichigan Supreme Court · 1906
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