Probasco v. Cook
Michigan Supreme Court
Case made from Ionia. • Appeal from the award of Commissioners on the estate of Nancy Jane Simpson, allowing a claim against the estate for an unpaid balance due for lands bought by her of the claimant. The Circuit Court confirmed the award.
1Opinion of the Court
Graves, ,J.
Mrs. Probasco made a claim against Mrs. Simpson’s estate for $668.69 and the commissioners allowed it at $669.12. Cook as administrator, appealed to the circuit court, and a trial there took place before the judge sitting without a jury, and he made a general finding in favor of the claimant for $684.70.
*715Some exceptions were taken to evidence and we are asked to review them upon a case made. No other' question is presented. The parties appear to have gone to trial before the circuit judge upon some private notion of their own as to what ‘ was in contest, since nothing express…
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