Elizabeth Brinsmade's Appeal

The probate court of Ottawa- county, upon application of Orleans L. Jordan and Hampden Kelsey, admitted to probate, on proof of foreign probate, the will of Thomas C. Brinsmade, deceased. Mrs. Brinsmade, his widow, was afterwards on a showing allowed to appeal from this order, which she claimed to have been made without sufficient cause and improperly. The appointment and probate were set aside by the circuit court, and Kelsey brought the case into this Court by writ of error.

There was no issue in the circuit court involving the validity of the will or of the New York probate, and the only…