Staples v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to determine the adverse claims of the parties in and to certain real estate in Bridgeport, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and reserved by that court, Greorge W. Wheeler, J., upon a finding of facts, for the consideration and advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
r The plaintiffs, as executors and residuary devisees under the will of Mary Wood, who died in 1897, claim title to certain real estate in Bridgeport. Mary Wood derived title to the estate in question by the will of her brother, John Lewis, who died in 1882. The following is the provision of the will of John Lewis, under which Mary Wood claimed the ownership of said property; —
“ I give, devise and bequeath to my said sisters, Mrs. Mary Wood and Miss Sarah Jane Lewis, my homestead, it being a certain tract of land situated in the town of Bridgeport, containing about six acres, more or less,…
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