IN RE MENDELSON ESTATE

No. 6 December Term 1973, Docket No. 54,637.

391 Mich. 706 (1974)

220 N.W.2d 33

In re MENDELSON ESTATE DETROIT BANK & TRUST COMPANY v. ST. AUGUSTINE NATIONAL BANK

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 25, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bodman, Longley, Bogle, Armstrong & Dahling (by Walter O. Koch), for plaintiffs.

Butzel, Levin, Winston & Quint (by Henry H. Sills), for defendants.


T.G. KAVANAGH, J.

This case involves two questions, one substantive and the other procedural. They may be stated:

1) Are trustees justified in distributing $225,000 to a life beneficiary in order to reimburse her for an expenditure of approximately $50,000 for a mausoleum room for herself and her family?

2) Was it an abuse of discretion on the part of the Oakland County courts to entertain jurisdiction after the Wayne Circuit Court had decided a controversy...

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