Van Etten v. MANUF. NAT'L BANK OF DETROIT

Plaintiff-appellant, Annie Laurine Dodge Van Etten, appeals by leave granted from a circuit court order granting defendants’ motion to remove to the probate court plaintiff’s chancery proceeding to reform a 1940 settlement agreement on the basis that the issues sought to be raised are ancillary to the pending probate proceedings. Thus, we are called upon to determine whether, under the Revised Probate Code, 1 the probate court possesses equity jurisdiction to reform a settlement contract and to order restitution of unpaid amounts when the matter is ancillary to the termination distribution of…