Ryan v. Andrews
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Clinton Circuit. This was a petition filed in the Probate Court for the County of Clinton, under the provisions of act No. 53 of Laws of 1867, by Florilla Andrews, to ascertain, by the determination of that Court, who are the legal heirs of John W. Ryan, and who are entitled to the lands of which the said John W. Ryan died seized, he dying without issue, and being, at the time of his death, unmarried and a minor, under seventeen .years of age.
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Error to Clinton Circuit. This was a petition filed in the Probate Court for the County of Clinton, under the provisions of act No. 53 of Laws of 1867, by Florilla Andrews, to ascertain, by the determination of that Court, who are the legal heirs of John W. Ryan, and who are entitled to the lands of which the said John W. Ryan died seized, he dying without issue, and being, at the time of his death, unmarried and a minor, under seventeen .years of age. The lands of which he died seized he derived by inheritance from his father, ■ Lovell Ryan. He left surviving him no brother nor sister; no…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell, Ch. J.
This case presents the single question whether property which descended to a decedent from his fathei* passes tó his maternal grandmother, who was not related to his •father, or to more distant relatives who were so related, in •exclusion of her claims as next of kin.
The whole matter depends upon the meaning to be .given to section 2816 of the Compiled Laws, which is as follows:
“The degrees of kindred shall be computed according to the rules of the civil law; and kindred of the half blood shall inherit equally with those of the whole blood in the same degree, unless the…
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