McDermott v. Scully
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by the defendants from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of New Haven requiring the executors of the will of Maurice Welch of New Haven, deceased, to amend their administration account by allowing the claim of the plaintiff, a legatee under the will, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Reed, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, affirming the action of the Court of Probate, and appeal by the…
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Appeal by the defendants from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of New Haven requiring the executors of the will of Maurice Welch of New Haven, deceased, to amend their administration account by allowing the claim of the plaintiff, a legatee under the will, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Reed, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, affirming the action of the Court of Probate, and appeal by the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
Maurice Welch, or Walsh, deceased, leaving a will, the eighth clause of which reads as follows: “I give to Rosella McDermott five (5) dollars, having heretofore deeded to her my house at No. 554 Dixwell Avenue in New Haven, and a mortgage in Bethany of twenty-five hundred (2500) dollars.”
The executors named in the will filed their account showing, as a portion of the residuary estate remaining for distribution, a note of Wallace S. Saxton for $2,200, dated October 1st, 1909, secured by a mortgage on land in Bethany. The Court of Probate, after due hearing, directed the executors to turn over…
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