Mckinney v. Estate of Hamilton

In this case the claimant undertook to prosecute a claim against an estate upon a negotiable instrument which was in possession of another person claiming *499title to it and having the usual marks of ownership. The same cause of-action had been presented by her for allowance, and in this way the paper came within the reach of the court, but in her controversy and subject to her claim of ownership. The circuit court of Ionia county, to which the case had been appealed, refused on the trial to allow plaintiff to recover.

We think this ruling was correct. The other claimant of the note was a…