IN RE FARRIS ESTATE

Docket No. 84044.

160 Mich. App. 14 (1987)

408 N.W.2d 92

In re FARRIS ESTATE FARRIS v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 5, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Gresch & Associates, P.C. (by Douglas P. Shepherd), for plaintiff.

Vandeveer, Garzia, Tonkin, Kerr, Heaphy, Moore, Sills & Poling, P.C. (by D. Douglas McGaw and Robert D. Brignall), for defendant.

Before: M.J. KELLY, P.J., and SULLIVAN and P.R. JOSLYN, JJ.


M.J. KELLY, P.J.

Two questions of first impression are presented in this appeal. The first is whether an order denying a petition to surcharge a surety on a bond is a final order appealable as a matter of right to the Court of Appeals under MCR 5.801(B)(3)(e). We answer in the affirmative.

MCR 5.801(B)(3) allows appeals of right from certain final probate court orders to this Court. These are "defined as and limited" to orders resolving any of twenty-eight...

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