Muehlenbeck v. J. W. Ederer & Co.

Frank A. Muehlenbeck, while hauling stone for Ederer & Company, met his death in a collision between the truck he was driving and a Michigan Central railroad train on October 9, 1923. Carl A. Muehlenbeck, a brother of the deceased, was appointed administrator of his estate by the probate court of Saginaw county.

On November 23, 1923, the administrator filed the following petition in the probate court:

“Your petitioner respectfully represents that he is duly appointed and qualified administrator of the estate of Frank F. Muehlenbeck, who met death on October 9, 1923, at Swan Creek, Michigan, as…