Case ID: mich_219/html/0627-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Sharpe, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HICKSVILLE v. TACKETT’S ESTATE.
    This case is controlled by Hocking Valley Products Co. v. Tackett’s Estate, ante, 623.
    Error to Muskegon; Vanderwerp- (John), J.
    Submitted April 20, 1922.
    (Docket No. 99.)
    Decided July 20, 1922.
    The First National Bank of Hicksville presented a claim against the estate of Marion F. Tackett, deceased, for the amount of certain promissory notes. The claim was allowed in the probate court, and defendant appealed to the circuit court. Judgment for •defendant. Plaintiff brings error.
    Reversed.
    
      Carpenter & Jackson, for appellant.
    
      Cross, Foote & Sessions, for appellee.
   Sharpe, J.

Plaintiff’s claim against the defendant estate is on two promissory notes given in settlement for two car loads of coal sold and delivered to the Sherwood Mills. It was allowed in the probate court, but on appeal disallowed in the circuit. The trial court, before whom the cause was tried without a jury, held that the testimony of George A. Smith,taken by deposition, was incompetent and refused to admit or consider it. In Hocking Valley Products Co. v. Tackett’s Estate, ante, 623, wherein the same deposition was offered, we held that error was committed in rejecting it. Such holding necessitates a reversal of the judgment entered and the granting of a new trial in this case, with costs to plaintiff. It is so ordered.

Fellows, C. J., and Wiest, McDonald, Clark, Bird, Moore, and Steere, JJ., concurred.