Campau v. Shaw
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. This case came from the Probate Court into the Circuit Court, by way of an appeal from the decision of commissioners ajipointed to audit claims against the estate of Joseph Campau. The Circuit Court allowed the claim of defendants in error, and the case was removed to this court by writ of error and bill of exceptions. The person and estate of the late Joseph Campau were under a special guardianship on account of his mental incapacity.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. This case came from the Probate Court into the Circuit Court, by way of an appeal from the decision of commissioners ajipointed to audit claims against the estate of Joseph Campau. The Circuit Court allowed the claim of defendants in error, and the case was removed to this court by writ of error and bill of exceptions. The person and estate of the late Joseph Campau were under a special guardianship on account of his mental incapacity. His special guardian entered into a lease with Shaw and Botsford, for fifteen years, of a piece of land in Saginaw; and eighteen months…
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.
The late Joseph Campau having, from old age, be-* come mentally incapable of managing his affairs, Henry C. Knight, Esq., was duly appointed by the Probate Court as his guardian.
An appeal having been taken from this appointment to the Circuit Court, Daniel J. Campau was, on the tAventythird day of January, 1862, duly appointed and qualified *231as special guardian of the ward, pending the appeal, as provided by the act of January 17, 1862. — Sess. L. pp. 11 and 12.
As such special guardian, he had (so far as is material to the present case), during his continuance in office, the same…
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