Parkinson v. Parkinson
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Frazer, J. Bill by Jane E. Parkinson against Charles A. Parkinson, Ida J. Parkinson, Norman Parkinson, and Edward A. Parkinson to construe the last will and testament of Alva Ewers, deceased, and to quiet title. From a decree for complainant, defendants Norman and Edward A. Parkinson appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
Jane E. Parkinson filed the bill in this cause to settle the title to two city lots of which she is in possession and claims in fee, but which some of the defendants’ counsel insist that she holds as tenant for life with remainder in fee to all of the defendants. The land belonged to her father, who undertook to dispose of it by will. The complainant claims that this will was void, for the reason that its provisions unlawfully suspended the power of alienation, and that in consequence the lands descended in accordance with the statfite, whereby she took an aliquot part in fee instead of an…
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