Dripps v. Meader
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the District of Middletown approving and admitting to probate a certain written instrument as the last will of Mary Ann Dripps of Middletown, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in Middlesex County and tried to the jury before Burpee, J.; verdict for the plaintiffs and against the validity of the will, which the trial court set aside as against the evidence, and from this decision the plaintiffs appealed.
1Per curiam
The contestants’ sole reliance is upon their evidence offered in support of their reason of appeal that the testatrix was, at the time she executed the writing propounded as her last will and testament, mentally incapable of making a valid will. That evidence consisted almost entirely of the testimony of witnesses tending to show that at the time the paper was executed she was approaching her eighty-sixth birthday, that her physical powers had become enfeebled in that she was somewhat crippled from rheumatism, afflicted with deafness and bodily weak, that her memory had for several years been…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Loomis v. PerkinsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
- Richmond Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1890
- KimberlySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1896
- Nichols v. WentzSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1905
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