Jones v. Jones
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Kent Circuit. This bill was filed by Cyrus Jones, Lawrence E. Prindle, and The First Society of Spiritualists of Grand Rapids, Michigan, against Thankful B. Jones, to obtain a construction of the last will and testament of Ira Jones, deceased. The cause was heard on pleadings without proofs.
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Appeal in Chancery from Kent Circuit. This bill was filed by Cyrus Jones, Lawrence E. Prindle, and The First Society of Spiritualists of Grand Rapids, Michigan, against Thankful B. Jones, to obtain a construction of the last will and testament of Ira Jones, deceased. The cause was heard on pleadings without proofs. The circuit judge decreed that the will conferred upon the defendant an absolute title to an undivided one-fourth part of all the estate, and a life estate only in the remaining three-fourths; that the complainants were each entitled to an undivided one-fourth part thereof, subject…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
The decision of this case requires a construction of the will of Ira Jones. The will was made in August, 1870, *402and the testator died in the following October. The defendant is his widow; and of the complainants, Jones was a brother, and Prindle a nephew of the testator, in the latter’s life-time. The estate left consisted of a parcel of land of a little over four acres, with a house and barn upon it, of about the value of six thousand dollars, and a little over three hundred dollars in personal property. It does not appear that the testator left any children or grandchildren.
The will is very…
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