Gumtow v. Janke
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Mandell, J. Emil Gumtow and others presented for probate the last will of August Foerster, deceased. Anna Janke, Marie Remus, and Gustave Foerster contested the allowance of such instrument. From an order denying the petition proponents appealed to the circuit court. Judgment for proponents, contestant Janke.brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
This case presents a contest over a petition to probate an alleged lost or destroyed will of August Foerster, deceased. The petition was denied in the probate court of Wayne county, and proponents appealed to the circuit court where the matter was tried before a jury, which found said alleged lost will to be the last will and testament of August Foerster, deceased. The case is brought into this court upon writ of error by Anna Janke, one of the contestants, and sister of the alleged testator. The proponents of the alleged will are Emil Gumtow and Ernest Gum-tow, children of a sister of the…
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