Bridgers v. Arnson

This statement, taken from the circuit court decision in the instant case,

“In the opinion of this court she has attempted to perpetrate a fraud on this court and the probate court”

stands out like a rubric and piques the legal and intellectual curiosity of the reader.

This quotation from the trial court’s opinion refers to the appellant, Ben Louise Bridgers, proponent of the will at issue.

Involved is the estate of Aaron George Arnson, a prolific writer of wills. More specifically, this appeal concerns three “last wills and testaments” of the deceased, and the attempts of the Antrim county *481probat…