Pillsbury v. Early

This is an appeal by the petitioner from an order of the circuit court dismissing her petition in which she prayed that the administrator with the will annexed of the estate of John Early, deceased, should pay to her a bequest of $2,000 as directed by the will. The prayer of the petition was granted by the probate court, but upon appeal to the circuit court (upon a hearing without a jury) the trial judge arrived at a contrary conclusion, sustained the appeal of the administrator and dismissed the petition.

There is practically no controversy as to the facts. On June 10,1910, John Early…