Peck's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of a court of probate disallowing a 'document offered as the will of Lucy A. Peck ,• taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the court before Sovey, J. Facts found and probate decree affirmed, and motion in error by the appellant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
In 1875 Lucy A. Peck made a will, which was duly executed. In 1880 she made another, which was inconsistent with the former. Not long after-wards she died. The later will has never been found; the former was carefully preserved by her and found among her valuable papers after her death. The new will did not expressly revoke the old. The testatrix was advised by the scrivener who wrote the last will to déstroy the first; but it *564was not done, and when he left the room the two wills were lying upon the table. No one now living knows of the existence of the last will after that time..Upon these…
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