Steuard v. Sellman's Estate
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kalamazoo; Smith, J., presiding. Claim by Horace A. Steuard as administrator of the estate of Emily Coe, deceased, against the estate of Betsey Sellman, decedent, for money had and received. From the allowance of part of the claim, claimant appealed and obtained judgment in circuit court. Defendant estate brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
Emily Coe and Betsey Sellman were sisters, and in the year 1903 were living together at Galesburg. On March 5, 1904, Emily, being ill, was taken to the hospital, where she died a year later, on the 7th day of March, 1905. It appears that, after she was taken to the hospital, Betsey took charge of certain moneys, about $400, which Emily had left in her bureau drawer, and deposited it in the bank in her own name. It was claimed that she had possession of other moneys belonging to Emily and that it all aggregated the sum of $1,200. While matters stood in this way, and on the 28th day of April,…
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