Prendergast v. Prendergast
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Ottawa; Cross, J. Bill by Edward Prendergast' against Richard J. Prendergast and others for the specific performance of a land contract. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
The parties to this suit are brothers and sisters, all of or past middle age. Their father, Michael Prendergast, died intestate September 9, 1915, aged about 85 years, at the home of his daughter Minnie Bresnahan, survived by the two sons and two daughters above named. His wife, and their mother, died in 1903. He survived a son Henry who died December 31, 1908, and daughter Etta who died in 1910, both unmarried. At the time of his death Richard, the oldest of his surviving children, was over 53 years of age, and Edward, the youngest, was 37. -At the time of his death Michael Prendergast had…
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