Brewer v. Curtis
Superior Court of Delaware
Action by Minot Curtis Brewer against Walter C. Curtis, executor. The parties by their respective attorneys of record waived the making and filing all pleadings, and submitted the cause to the court on an agreed statement of facts. Judgment for the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the Court
Boyce, J.,
delivering the opinion of the court:
This is a case stated in assumpsit for a legacy. The question is whether the plaintiff, Minot C. Brewer, is entitled to the sum of twenty-seven thousand dollars or the sum of seven thousand dollars under the will of his grandmother, Adaline H. Curtis, lately of White. Clay Creek Hundred, who departed this life, August the twenty-third, 1917, possessed of an estate of personal *217property amounting to 'fifty-five thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty-nine cents.
The deceased left as her next of kin the plaintiff, who is the surviving…
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