IN RE BUTTERFIELD ESTATE

Docket No. 67826, (Calendar No. 16).

418 Mich. 241 (1983)

341 N.W.2d 453

In re BUTTERFIELD ESTATE GOWTHORPE v. PAGE

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman (by Douglas D. Roche, Richard J. Meyers, and Richard A. Wilhelm) for the trustees.

Landman, Luyendyk, Latimer, Clink & Robb (by Jon D. Vander Ploeg and J. William Whitlock) for the beneficiaries.


BOYLE, J.

The issues presented in this action are whether a probate court has jurisdiction to determine and order the amounts of dividends to be paid by corporations in which the majority interests are owned by a corporation wholly owned by a testamentary trust, and, if the probate court has such jurisdiction, whether the evidence presented in this case supports the exercise of such jurisdiction.

FACTS

The testator, Walter S. Butterfield, died in 1936...

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