Hoban v. Campau

The writ of error in this case brings before the Court the proceedings had in the circuit court for the county of Wayne on the probate of the will of Emilie Campau, late of the city of Detroit, who had died March 25, 1881. The will with a codicil thereto had been duly probated in the probate court for Wayne county, and the contestants had appealed to the circuit court, assigning as the sole reason for appeal, “ that the said will was obtained by undue influence exercised upon said testatrix.” The trial in the circuit court occupied the attention of that court for seventeen days, and resulted…