Howard v. Batchelder

The testator, Arthur P. Howard, died at Norwich on October 3, 1924, at the age of seventy. He left surviving, as his only heirs at law, his wife, Lina, then fifty-seven years old, and an unmarried daughter, Lucille, then twenty-seven. Lucille married James H. Batchelder in 1941. In 1945 she died, at the age of forty-eight, intestate and without issue, leaving as her heirs at law her mother and her husband. Lina, whom the testator had married in 1890, died in 1953, aged eighty-six. The testator also left a brother, Harold M. Howard, and a sister, Adrienne Howard Lane, both of whom predeceased…