Campbell's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Probate Court for the district of Bridgeport, ascertaining the heirs at law and distributees of the intestate estate of Patrick Sloan: taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where the cause was erased from the docket by the court, Shumway, J., and the appellant appealed to this court. The next of kin of the intestate were a brother who was an alien, and five first cousins who were naturalized citizens of the United States.
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Appeal from an order and decree of the Probate Court for the district of Bridgeport, ascertaining the heirs at law and distributees of the intestate estate of Patrick Sloan: taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where the cause was erased from the docket by the court, Shumway, J., and the appellant appealed to this court. The next of kin of the intestate were a brother who was an alien, and five first cousins who were naturalized citizens of the United States. The decree gave the personal estate to the alien brother, and the real estate to these cousins. The appellant, a natural…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The appellant claims to be aggrieved by the probate decree of distribution, as an heir at law and next of kin to the intestate, and also as a citizen of the State, acting for himself and all the rest of its citizens. His contention is that either the real estate in question escheated to the State, in which case he, as one of its citizens, has an interest in defeating a distribution to private individuals; or else that an escheat, so far as he is concerned, has been prevented by force of the statute of 11 and 12 Wm. III., Chap. 6, in favor of inheritances by natural born citizens.
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2Cases cited4 opinions
- Norton's Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1879
- DickinsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1875
- Heath v. WhiteSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1824
- Hillhouse v. ChesterU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut · 1808
3Cited by14 opinions
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- Exchange Buffet Corporation v. RogersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1952
- Culver v. Union & New Haven Trust Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1935
- Ciglar v. FinkelstoneSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1955
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