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IN RE POWERS ESTATE

Docket Nos. 35-38, Calendar Nos. 48,720-48,723.

362 Mich. 222 (1961)

106 N.W.2d 833

In re POWERS ESTATE.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Rehearing denied February 28, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oscar E. Waer and John C. Cary, for plaintiff-proponent.

Varnum, Riddering, Wierengo & Christenson (F. William Hutchinson, of counsel), for defendant-contestant guardian ad litem.

John S. White, for defendant-contestant heir-at-law Anderson and others.

Harry J. Knudsen, Prosecuting Attorney, on application for rehearing.

EDWARDS, J.

In this case a Michigan lawyer drafted a will (and 2 codicils thereto) which left the bulk of an old lady's estate of three-quarters of a million dollars to the lawyer's wife. The particular will in dispute was the last of a series of wills, and it and its codicils were executed within a period of 2 years before the testatrix was committed to a mental institution where she subsequently died.

The will preceding the last will provided for certain...

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