In re Hoffmann's Estate
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Hosmer, J. Julius Bonninghausen, as executor, presented for probate the last will and testament of Theodore Hoffmann, deceased. The will was allowed in the probate court, and William Hoffmann, a nephew and heir at law, appealed to the circuit court. There was judgment for proponent on a verdict directed by the court, and contestant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtBlair, J.
Theodore Hoffmann died testate January 26, 1905, leaving surviving him as his sole heir at la-w- and only blood relative, the contestant, William Hoffmann, a nephew. The will, which was executed November 19, 1904, gave the testator’s entire estate to a tenant of one of his two houses, by the name of Woodward, and an old friend by the name of Bauman, neither of whom was in anywise related to testator. From the order of the probate court admitting the will to probate, contestant appealed to the circuit court, where a verdict was directed in favor of proponents, and he has removed the record to…
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