Legal Opinion
In Re Phillips
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided June 7, 1943No. Docket No. 3, Calendar No. 42,072PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBushnell, J.
Eva Phillips, a minor of the age of 18, nominated her mother, Margaret Phillips, as her guardian. As the mother was not a citizen of the United States, the probate judge, because of the provisions of Act No. 288, chap. 4, § 27, Pnb. Acts 1939, the probate code (Comp. Laws Snpp. 1940, § 16289-4 [27], Stat. Ann. 1942 Cum. Snpp. § 27.3178 [278]), denied her petition and appointed another. This section reads:
“It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this State to require that all persons acting in a representative capacity under appointment of a probate court, as fiduciary, shall at all…
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