Beardslee v. Reeves
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Oakland. (Stickney, J.) Trover for alleged conversion of certain notes and a mortgage belonging to tbe estate. Plaintiff brings error. The facts, and points of counsel passed upon by the Court, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
January 27, 1871, Stephen Reeves died intestate, leaving surviving him his widow, one son, the defendant, and six daughters.
Stephen Reeves was an old settler and prominent citizen of Oakland county. He had been judge of probate of the county, and for this reason, or some other, had a deep-seated and bitter prejudice against the administration of estates in that court, and seemed determined, for many years before his death, to so dispose of his property during his life that at his death there would be nothing left of his estate to be administered upon.
His wife died the next fall after his…
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