Wessborg v. Merrill
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Saginaw; Searl, J., presiding. Petition in probate court by Eric S. Wessborg, executor of the last will and testament of Alice E. Wessborg, deceased, against Herbert W. Merrill and others, executors of the last will and testament of William Merrill, deceased, for a decree requiring respondents to transfer to petitioner, as such executor, certain stock and stock dividends. From an order granting the prayer of the petition, respondents appealed to the circuit court.
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Error to Saginaw; Searl, J., presiding. Petition in probate court by Eric S. Wessborg, executor of the last will and testament of Alice E. Wessborg, deceased, against Herbert W. Merrill and others, executors of the last will and testament of William Merrill, deceased, for a decree requiring respondents to transfer to petitioner, as such executor, certain stock and stock dividends. From an order granting the prayer of the petition, respondents appealed to the circuit court. Judgment for petitioner. Respondents bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
This case came to the circuit court of Saginaw county on an appeal taken by the executors of the last will and testament of William Merrill, deceased, from an order of the probate court of that county, which, amongst other things, required them to pay one-sixth of the dividends declared on certain stock, left by their decedent for his wife and children, to Eric S. Wessborg, executor and trustee of the estate of his wife, Alice E. Merrill Wessborg, deceased, who was a daughter of William Merrill. The case was tried in the-circuit court before a jury; but at conclusion of the proofs it was…
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