Michigan Supreme Court, 1896

Brillant v. Circuit Judge

Brillant v. Circuit Judge
Michigan Supreme Court · Decided July 8, 1896
1 McGrath 585; 67 N.W. 1101

Brillant v. Circuit Judge

Opinion of the Court

To vacate so much of a judgment in favor of contestants, in a contest over the admission of a will to probate, as allows to proponents their actual expenses incurred in the trial in the Circuit and Supreme Courts.

*589Granted July 8, 1896, with, costs against proponents.

Held, that while under How. Stat. Sec. 6791, the court might in a meritorious case allow costs payable from the estate to either or both parties, it could do no more than award taxable costs.

Cheever vs. North, 64 N. W., 458.

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