Legal Opinion

Buckingham's Appeal from Probate

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided September 9, 1889PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from a probate decree approving and allowing the will of Irene Clark; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. The appellees moved that the appeal be erased from the docket on the ground that it did not appear that the appellant was aggrieved by the decree appealed from, and the court (Andrews, J.,) granted the motion and ordered the appeal to be stricken from the docket. 'The appellant appealed to this court. The case is fully stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.

On April 16th, 1887, the probate court within and for the district of Milford approved a writing executed on November 11th, 1881, as the last will of Irene Clark, and ordered the same to be recorded. On April 5th, 1888, the appellant exhibited to the same court another writing purporting to be the last will of the said Irene Clark, executed on November 17th, 1879, in which the appellant was made *545one of the legatees and of which she was named one of the executors. On this last named day she took this appeal to the Superior Court from the order of the probate court approving the will of 1881,…

2Cited by14 opinions

  1. Kennedy v. WalcuttOhio Supreme Court · 1928
  2. O'LEARY v. McGuinnessSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1953
  3. Hartford Kosher Caterers, Inc. v. GazdaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1973
  4. Delehanty v. PitkinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1904
  5. In re Will of HuntWisconsin Supreme Court · 1904

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