Harring v. Allen

This is a writ of error brought to reverse an order of the circuit court for the county of Lenawee, reversing an order of the probate court of that county, which adjudged that Jacob D. Harring, late of that county, died intestate.

It appears by the record, that the decedent in the fall of 1864, made a will containing a devise to his daughter, Mrs. Allen, the defendant in error, and that Ebenezer Harmon, one of the plaintiffs in error, and administrator under the order of the probate court, was named executor, and that, from the time it was made, he had the custody of the will until a few days…