In Re Paquin's Estate

Ferdinand Paquin of Mackinaw City' died on January 13, 1949, leaving an instrument purporting to be his last will and testament. It was dated July 10, 1944, 3 weeks prior to his eighty-eighth birthday. It contained a bequest of $500 to the Altar Society of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church of Mackinaw City, Michigan. The attorney who drafted the will testified that this was a misnomer and an error, that St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church was meant. The entire residue of the estate, valued at between $25,000 to $30,000 was left to Ferris L. Coffman, proponent, who filed a petition to probate…