Meriden Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Squire
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to determine the construction of the will of Augusta M. Curtis of Meriden, deceased, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Webb, J., upon the facts alleged in the complaint, for the advice of this court.
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Suit to determine the construction of the will of Augusta M. Curtis of Meriden, deceased, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Webb, J., upon the facts alleged in the complaint, for the advice of this court. Augusta M. Curtis died April 1st, 1914, possessed of real and personal property and leaving a will executed April 15th, 1908, with a codicil thereto, possessing no present importance, dated October 9th, 1911. Her only heirs-at-law were a son, George M. Curtis, who was nearly fifty-one years of age when the will was executed, and Ruth Curtis Squire, a daughter…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
All the questions here at issue concern the testatrix’s disposition of the residue of her estate, comprising by far the larger part of it. They arise out of the provisions of the seventh paragraph of her will, which is the only portion of that instrument which either concerns the disposition of the residue or throws light upon the testatrix’s intentions therein. In its opening sentence, forming the whole of the main portion of the paragraph, she uses apt and unambiguous words of gift to her son George of one half of that residue, to vest in him in point of both right and possession and…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Mansfield v. SheltonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1896
- Hoadley v. BeardsleySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1915
- Carpenter v. PerkinsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1910
- Hudson v. WadsworthSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1831
- St. John v. DannSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1895
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3Cited by13 opinions
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