Robbins ex rel. Wood v. Burridge
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Lenawee; Chester, J. Debt by Richard B. Robbins, judge of probate of Lena-wee county, for the use and benefit of Frederick B. Wood, administrator de bonis non, with the will annexed, of the estate of David D. Meeker, deceased, against Walter C. Burridge, principal, and Peter B. Sutfin and John Linton, sureties, on an administrator’s bond. From a judgment for plaintiff on verdict directed by the court, defendant sureties bring error. Reversed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, C. J.
This is an action on an administrator’s bond commenced by declaration; and it appears by the record that on the 7th day of August, 1891, David D. Meeker, of the village of Tecumseh, in Lenawee county, departed this life, leaving a last will and testament, and possessed of real and personal estate in said county, of the estimated value of $11,000 or thereabouts, and, afterwards, Charles Burridge, of said village, was duly appointed by the probate court of said county executor of the will of said deceased, and entered upon the duties of said appointment. On the 3d day of April, 1891, he filed…
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