Churchill v. Skjerding

The defendants appeal from a judgment for the plaintiffs, rendered after a jury trial, determining in effect that the document offered by the defendants for probate as the last will and testament of Eva Churchelow is not her last will and testament. The defendants, who are the proponents of the will, had prevailed in the Probate Court for the district of Waterbury where the document had been admitted.1 From this decision, the plaintiffs, the children of Eva Churchelow’s deceased son, who are among her heirs-at-law, took an appeal to the Superior Court. A jury trial resulted in a general…