In Re Powers Estate

362 Mich. 222 (1961)

106 N.W.2d 833

In re POWERS ESTATE.

Docket Nos. 35-38, Calendar Nos. 48,720-48,723.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided January 9, 1961.

Rehearing denied February 28, 1961.

Oscar E. Waer and John C. Cary, for plaintiff-proponent.

Varnum, Riddering, Wierengo & Christenson (F. William Hutchinson, of counsel), for defendant-contestant guardian ad litem.

John S. White, for defendant-contestant heir-at-law Anderson and others.

Harry J. Knudsen, Prosecuting Attorney, on application for rehearing.

EDWARDS, J.

In this case a Michigan lawyer drafted a will (and 2 codicils thereto) which left…