Taylor v. Klahm

Plaintiff administrator brought this action against defendants Hannah Klahm (mother) and Marianne Piner (daughter) to recover monies alleged to have been wrongfully obtained by them from plaintiff’s decedent, Alma Sturm, at or near the time of her death in October 1963. This case is before this Court for the second time, following a third trial had before a jury in Berrien County Circuit Court. The first trial, in 1965, resulted in a mistrial. In 1966, a second trial resulted in a judgment on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $20,891.33; the appeal to this Court occasioning…