Case ID: mich_97/html/0613-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Edgar O. Durfee, Judge of Probate of Wayne County.
    
      Estates of deceased persons — Contingent claim — Disallowance— Remedy of claimant.
    
    
      Mandamus will not lie to compel a probate judge to allow a contingent claim against the estate of a deceased person, tbe proper remedy being by an appeal from tbe order of dis-allowance.
    
      Mandamus.
    
    Order to show cause denied May 31, 1893.
    Relator petitioned the probate court of Wayne county for the allowance against the estate of a deceased person of a contingent claim which had become absolute after the expiration of the time limited for creditors to present their claims. On the hearing the respondent refused to allow the claim, and dismissed the petition, and relator applied for mandamus to compel the allowance of the claim.
    
      Alfred Russell, for relator.
   Per Curiam.

An order to show cause is denied, the remedy being by appeal where a contingent claim against an estate is disallowed by the probate court upon a hearing.