O'Dell v. Goff
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Cass; Coolidge, J., presiding. B. O’Dell and others presented for probate the last will and testament of John E. Goff, deceased. The will was allowed in the probate court, and Leslie Goff appealed tei the circuit court. There was judgment for contestant, and proponents bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
This suit is brought to secure the probate of the will of John E. Goff, deceased. The proponents are the executors named in said will. The contestant is the son of the testator. The will in question was made November 3, 1885, when the testator was 66 years old. It has a codicil made September 23, 1897, at which time the testator was 78 years of age. Testator died in 1904, when he was 85 years of age. The will and codicil disposes of testator’s entire estate, aggregating in value $41,000. The residue — constituting the bulk of the estate — is bequeathed “to be used as a nucleus in *155founding,…
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