Legal Opinion
Cowles v. Cowles
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided April 9, 1888PublishedCited by 14 opinions
Shit for advice as to tlie construction of a will; brought to tlie Sujierior Court in Litchfield County, and, upon facts found, reserved for the advice of this court. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
The controversy in this case grows out of certain bequests in the will of David M. Cowles, late of the town of Bethlehem in this state. They are as follows :—
“ I give to my son, Horace Cowles, ten thousand dollars; to him, Ms heirs and assigns forever.
“I give to my two daughters, Wealthy C. Porter, the wife of John Porter, and Mary, wife of William Bassett, five thousand dollars worth of bank stock to each of them, in trust. Each is to have and enjoy, during her natural life, all the profits and uses of five thousand dollars worth of *242bank stock, and. at the decease of either, as it shall…
2Cited by14 opinions
- Gorke v. Le ClercConnecticut Superior Court · 1962
- Gardner v. McNealCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1911
- Estate of Brown v. BrownSupreme Court of Iowa · 1908
- Walker v. First Trust & Savings BankCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1926
- Norton v. MortensenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1914
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