In re Van Syckle's Estate
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Collingwood, J., presiding. Thomas T. Leete, Jr., administrator of the estate of William H. Van. Syckle, deceased, filed a petition in the probate court for license to sell certain real estate for the purpose of paying debts. From an order granting the petition, Paul C. Renaud and another, owners of the interests of the widow and surviving son of deceased, appealed to the circuit court. Judgment overruling the order of the probate court.
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Error to Wayne; Collingwood, J., presiding. Thomas T. Leete, Jr., administrator of the estate of William H. Van. Syckle, deceased, filed a petition in the probate court for license to sell certain real estate for the purpose of paying debts. From an order granting the petition, Paul C. Renaud and another, owners of the interests of the widow and surviving son of deceased, appealed to the circuit court. Judgment overruling the order of the probate court. The administrator brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
This case is here for review of an order of the circuit court of Wayne county reversing an order of the probate court directing the sale of real estate to pay debts of the estate of William H. Van Syckle, deceased.
The history of the estate is as follows: William H. Van Syckle died intestate April 15, 1893, leaving as heirs a widow and two minor children, one of whom subsequently died. Whatever property interests deceased left, other than the land in question here— known as the Henry street property — were all exhausted in mortgage foreclosures, widow’s allowances and some small incidental…
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