Legal Opinion

Brillant v. Circuit Judge

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided July 8, 1896No. 15413PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

To vacate so much of a judgment in favor of contestants, in a contest over the admission of a will to probate, as allows to proponents their actual expenses incurred in the trial in the Circuit and Supreme Courts.

*589Granted July 8, 1896, with, costs against proponents.

Held, that while under How. Stat. Sec. 6791, the court might in a meritorious case allow costs payable from the estate to either or both parties, it could do no more than award taxable costs.

Cheever vs. North, 64 N. W., 458.

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Bresnahan v. NugentMichigan Supreme Court · 1895

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. In re Quinn's EstateMichigan Supreme Court · 1914