Bancroft v. Security Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by tbe beneficiary of a trust fund to recover the income which accrued between the date of the death of the testatrix and the receipt of the fund by the trustee, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, where a demurrer to a portion of the answer was overruled (Prentice, J.'), and the cause was subsequently reserved (Eorabaoh, J.') upon an agreed finding of facts for the consideration and advice of this court. The cáse is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Torrance C. J.
The plaintiff is a daughter of Mary E. Bancroft, who died in July, 1899, leaving by will certain property to the defendant in trust. By said will, after the payment of debts and expenses of settling the estate, the testatrix bequeathed $1,000 to each of her two brothers, three small sums to two nephews and a niece, her wearing apparel, hooks, pictures, and household effects of every kind, and $1,000, to the plaintiff, and then disposed of the “ rest and residue ” of her estate of every kind in the seventh and eighth clauses of her will.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
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