Husted's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of a court of probate accepting and approving the report of distributors setting out dower to the appellant in the real estate of Aaron Husted, her late husband ; tried in the superior court before Sanford, J. It appeared on the trial that Aaron Husted by his will gave all his property, real and personal, to his son Mills H. Husted, subject to the dower of his widow in the real estate.
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Appeal from a decree of a court of probate accepting and approving the report of distributors setting out dower to the appellant in the real estate of Aaron Husted, her late husband ; tried in the superior court before Sanford, J. It appeared on the trial that Aaron Husted by his will gave all his property, real and personal, to his son Mills H. Husted, subject to the dower of his widow in the real estate. He died in 1857, and from that time she lived in the family of the son on the land until his death, and after that with his widow, on the same place, until her application in 1864 to have…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
This is an appeal from the decree of a court of probate, accepting and approving the assignment of dower in the estate of Aaron Husted to his widow, the appel*492lant. The appellees make the preliminary question whether a decree of this character is subject to the general provision of the statute authorizing appeals from orders and decrees of probate in the settlement of deceased persons’ estates; and the claim is made that, by the express provision of the statute, the doings of the freeholders in the assignment of dower, when returned to and accepted by the court of probate, are final, because…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Baldwin v. BreedSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1843
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