Culver's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the decree of a court of prohate, approving the will of Clark Adye, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Litchfield County, and heard before Culver, J. The appellant moved to have the case stricken from the docket for want of jurisdiction, which' motion the court denied.
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Appeal from the decree of a court of prohate, approving the will of Clark Adye, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Litchfield County, and heard before Culver, J. The appellant moved to have the case stricken from the docket for want of jurisdiction, which' motion the court denied. The court made the following finding of facts: The deceased, Clark Adye, was born in the town of Seymour, in this state, and was a settled inhabitant therein till some time in the early spring of 1876, and up to that time received support from the town at different times as a pauper. In 1855 he was made an…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
It appears from the record that an instrument purporting to be a copy of the last will of Clark Adye, of Woodbury, having been lodged with the court of probate for that district, the executor named in the will appeared in court and “moved that said copy be proved, approved and admitted to probate as and for the last will and testament of said deceased,” and that the present appellant also appeared and filed his written motion, being in substance a plea that the court had no jurisdiction of the matter, because the testator last resided in Seymour in the probate district of New Haven, and was…
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