Owen v. Estate of Baxter
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne. (Gartner, J.) Appeal from the allowance of a claim by commissioners in probate court. The estate brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
This cause was tried before the court without a jury, and findings of fact and law were made.
It appears that William -H. Baxter, now deceased, owned two mortgages, given by Frederick Schmidt and wife. Default being made in the payment of the interest due in the fall of 1875, the mortgages were separately foreclosed by advertisement. Sales were had on March 31, 1876, and the property bid in by Baxter for the full amount claimed, including in each case an attorney’s fee of $100. Bobert P. Toms was Mr. Baxter’s attorney in the foreclosure proceedings; and on September 4, 1876, A. H. Wilkinson…
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