Cornett v. Cornett
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Jackson; Peck, J. Bill by George Cornett to restrain William H. Cornett from assuming to act as complainant’s guardian, and to set aside the proceedings under which he claimed authority so to act. From a decree dismissing the bill on demurrer, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, C. J.
The complainant’s bill alleges certain fraudulent proceedings in the year 1896 by the defendant to get possession of his property from a custodian in another county, and the bringing of it to the county of Jackson, for the purpose of giving a seeming jurisdiction to the probate court for proceedings to appoint a guardian, and the following up of that fraud by statements, without any reason or foundation of facts, to show that the complainant was insane; that by such means, while the complainant was entirely sane and competent, and transacting business as a traveling salesman in the State of…
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