Signs v. Bush's Estate
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Genesee; Stevens, J. Grace A. Signs presented a claim against the estate of Charles W. Bush, deceased, for an amount agreed by testator and another should be devised to claimant by will. The claim was disallowed by the commissioners, and claimant appealed to the circuit court. Judgment for contestants on a directed verdict, claimant brings error.
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Error to Genesee; Stevens, J. Grace A. Signs presented a claim against the estate of Charles W. Bush, deceased, for an amount agreed by testator and another should be devised to claimant by will. The claim was disallowed by the commissioners, and claimant appealed to the circuit court. Judgment for contestants on a directed verdict, claimant brings error. The claim which appellant is asserting against the estate of Charles W. Bush arose as follows: In February, 1881, her parents, William H. and Harriet E.. Bush, were residing in South Ionia, in a house owned by. the latter. At that time…
1Opinion of the CourtKuhn, C. J.
(after stating the facts). We think that the situation here presented is fairly summed up in the brief of counsel for appellee in the following statement:
“Thus we have a contract that Harriet E. Bush conveyed a piece of real estate to Collier, Collier conveyed real estate to Charles W. Bush, and Bush promised to make a will leaving a bequest to two daughters of Harriet E. Bush, or their survivor (strangers to the contract), of one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, *196with legal interest from the date of such conveyance to ¿he date of the death of Charles W. Bush.”
The trial judge, after hearing the…
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