Charles F. Smithers' Appeal From Probate

The parties have stipulated to the-material facts involved in this appeal and it is unnecessary to repeat them in any detail. It suffices to-note that the appellee is the widower of Marie D. Curtis who, in the language of the brief for the-appellants, “during the last year of her life, and presumably prior thereto ... supported the appellee,. John Jacob Curtis, and herself with a lavish hand”; the appellee elected to take his statutory share in his deceased wife’s estate, pursuant to the provisions-of § 7309 of the General Statutes (as amended, Cum. Sup. 1955, i) 3002d). Subsequently, the…