Powell v. Pennock
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Barry; Smith, J. Bill by Ella L. Powell and others against Clara Pennock for an accounting for claimed assets of the estate of Asa B. Pennock, deceased. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
Plaintiffs appeal from a decree of the *574circuit court of Barry county in chancery dismissing their bill of complaint against defendant, their stepmother, filed to compel her to account for claimed assets of the estate of their father, Asa B. Pennock, deceased, charged to have been fraudulently obtained, sequestered, and appropriated by her.
The case was before this court in a preliminary stage on appeal by plaintiffs from an order sustaining defendant’s demurrer to the bill. It was then held that under the allegations in the bill the probate court did not have exclusive jurisdiction over the…
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