Legal Opinion

In Re Dettling Estate

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided March 5, 1958No. 63, Calendar No. 47,544PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

351 Mich. 335 (1958)

88 N.W.2d 252

In re DETTLING ESTATE.

SMITH

v.

DETTLING.

Docket No. 63, Calendar No. 47,544.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 5, 1958.

Francis J. McDonald and Edmund J. Stafford, for plaintiff.

Marlin J.W. Campbell, for proponent defendant.

This will contest features a subscribing witness as contestant. The other subscribing witness is the contestant's husband. Concededly the 3 essential signatures — of the decedent and subscribers — are genuine. From this the professional reader will surmise at once what we are asked to decide.

Decedent Minnie D. Dettling and contestant Elsie…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Cebulak v. LewisMichigan Supreme Court · 1948
  2. German Evangelical Bethel Church of Concordia v. ReithSupreme Court of Missouri · 1931
  3. Abbott v. AbbottMichigan Supreme Court · 1879
  4. In Re Dalton EstateMichigan Supreme Court · 1956
  5. Burkland v. StarrySupreme Court of Missouri · 1950

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Utley v. First Congregational ChurchMichigan Supreme Court · 1962
  2. In Re Clark EstateMichigan Court of Appeals · 1999
  3. Garrigan v. LaSalle Coca-Cola Bottling Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1961
  4. Garrigan v. LaSalle Coca-Cola Bottling Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1961
  5. Utley v. First Congregational ChurchMichigan Supreme Court · 1962

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