Spratt v. Spratt
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Jackson. (Peck, J.) Proponents appealed from the order of the probate court disallowing a will, which was affirmed in the circuit court. The facts, and points of counsel passed upon by the Court, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
Albert L. Spratt was a farmer, unmarried, and at the time of his death was 71 years of age. He died November 19, 1886, of pneumonia, having made the will in question on the sixteenth of the same month. At the time of his death he had accumulated property which inventoried about $123,878, consisting of farms, bonds and mortgages, notes, and other personal property. He had resided on a farm in the town of Spring Arbor, Jackson county, Michigan, nearly all his life, with a maiden sister, who, at the time of his death, was 67 years of age, named Delia M. Spratt. His parents were dead, and he left…
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