Lawrence v. Beardsley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to establish the liability of the defendant as trustee, and for an accounting, brought to the Superior Court in Fair-field County where a demurrer to the complaint was overruled (Roraback, and the cause was afterwards tried to the court, Thayer, J.; facts found and judgment rendered requiring the defendant to account as trustee, and appeal by him for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to establish the liability of the defendant as trustee, and for an accounting, brought to the Superior Court in Fair-field County where a demurrer to the complaint was overruled (Roraback, and the cause was afterwards tried to the court, Thayer, J.; facts found and judgment rendered requiring the defendant to account as trustee, and appeal by him for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The material facts in the case are these: George Lawrence, father of the plaintiff, died in 1879, leaving a will containing the following provisions: “ Third. I give, devise and bequeath unto my…
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.
The controlling question in this case is this: Did the plaintiff, under the will of his father, take any interest in the proceeds of the sale of the Hallam Street property ? If he did not, then, without reference to the other questions raised by the reasons of appeal, the trial court erred in rendering the judgment complained of.
The language of the will bearing- immediately upon this question is this: “ At the death of my said wife I give . . . to my two sons . . . for and during the period of their natural lives, the use of the property ... on Hallam St., if undisposed of”
The plaintiff…
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