In re Butt's Estate
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Saginaw; Gage, J. Dellmore A. Butts presented to the probate court of Saginaw county a petition to admit to probate the last will of Anna Maria Butts, deceased. Contestants filed a plea to the jurisdiction of the court which caused the proceedings to be certified to the circuit court for determination. Petitioner demurred and the demurrer was overruled; petitioner brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, C. J.
This case comes here on an appeal taken from a judgment of the circuit court of Saginaw county, overruling petitioner’s demurrer to a plea to the jurisdiction of the probate court of said county, to entertain a petition for the probation of a lost will, quashing *506the proceedings, and dismissing said petition in accordance with said plea. The matter was appealed and certified from probate court to the circuit court under Act No. 238 of the Public Acts of 1911 (5 How. Stat. [2d Ed. ] § 12111), permitting appeals to be taken from the probate court during the pendency of a petition for the…
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