Sansona v. Laraia
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by the plaintiff from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Hartford approving and admitting to probate the will of Pietro A. Laraia of Hartford, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Case, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendant, sustaining the will, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The application to correct the appeal is dismissed. What is sought by it is to have the court’s finding corrected. Only the first of the corrections asked for would be proper in a finding by the court in a jury case. The others are findings of fact to be made from the evidence, which was for the jury. The first is only a fuller statement of the appellant’s claim than that which the court made. The latter was sufficient for the purposes of the appeal.
The appellant’s sole claim was “that the testator was so unfamiliar with the English language, which was the language employed by the scrivener…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Rockwell's Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1886
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