In Re Estate of Briggs

Calhoun, Judge:

This case is before the Court on writ of error to the judgment of the Circuit Court of Summers County, by which that court adjudged that a certain writing in the form of a letter was the holographic will of Solon Brady Briggs, Sr., a widower, who will be referred to in this opinion as the decedent.

At the time of his death in Detroit on December 11, 1961, and for more than fifteen years prior to that time, the decedent had been a resident of Michigan. He is survived by a son, Solon Brady Briggs, Jr. It appears from the record that the Probate Court of Wayne County, Michigan,…