Ollenbrook v. Bertling
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Tappan (Harvey J.), J., presiding. Orrin S. Breen and William Bohrer, executors, presented the last will of Anna Klink, deceased. The will was allowed in the probate court, and Louisa Ollenbrook appealed to the circuit court. Judgment for contestant. Proponents bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtSharpe, J.
Anna Klink died in Detroit on May 12, 1916. The proponents presented for probate a writing, dated July 31,1914, purporting to be her last will and testament. It was allowed and an appeal taken to the circuit court for Wayne county. The contestant claimed that the deceased was mentally incompetent to make a will and that undue influence was exercised by the proponents to secure its execution. The trial judge held as a matter of law that there was no sufficient proof of mental incompetency, and so instructed the jury. He submitted the question of undue influence, and they found against the…
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