In Re Powers Estate

I knew of no better way to legalize the Jarndyced mulct of a testator’s fat estate than to lay down an unqualified rule that his collaterally distant heirs, all of whom have been previously and steadily disinherited by a series of produced, proven, and fully residuary testaments, are eligible as contestants of what purports to be his latest will. Such rule, adopted today, aligns Michigan with that strange notion — originating in Kansas —that an unprobated earlier will, however valid and probatable that will may have been had death ensued prior to its legal revocation, is a “mere scrap of…