Hayden v. Connecticut Hospital
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to determine the construction and validity of the residuary clause in the will of Mary L. Townsend; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and reserved by the court,( George W. Wheeler, J., upon the facts stated in the complaint and admitted to be true, for the advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtFenn, J.
This case reserves for our advice the question as to the validity and proper construction of the residuary clause in the last will of Mary L. Townsend, late of New Haven, deceased.
*322The language is as follows:—“ All the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate I give and bequeath to my executor for the following purposes: All the furniture and wearing apparel is to be disposed of by him agreeable to a memorandum to be furnished him. Money and real estate is for the purpose of establishing free bed or beds at the Hospital for Insane at Middletown for female patients, to be known as the ‘ Mary…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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