Bangs v. Browne
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Kalamazoo; Adams, J. Bill by Vital E. Bangs and others against Ella Browne, and Robert J. Williamson and J. Davidson Burns, executors of the last will and testament of Henry Brees, deceased, and the Kalamazoo Savings Bank, to reopen an estate, and for an accounting. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The wife of Henry Brees was twice a widow, before she married him, which she did in 1848. At that time she had four children, whose father was named Bangs, he being her first husband, and one named Soledad La Vegas, a daughter of her second husband. All ■came to. Kalamazoo, and were brought up in the family of Brees. Their mother died many years ago, after which time Soledad Drake, formerly LaVegas (a widow), and her two daughters, Ella and Jennie, took up their abode with him, and managed his household affairs until he died April 30, 1897. He was then 88 years old.
Brees was a man of some…
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