Reed v. Reed
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Simsbury, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court (Ourtis, J.~). The decree was one allowing the administration account of Carrie S. Reed, executrix of the will of George W. M. Reed, late of Tariffville, deceased, and refusing to remove her, or to require her to file a bond, or to appoint a trustee of the residuary estate.
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Appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Simsbury, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court (Ourtis, J.~). The decree was one allowing the administration account of Carrie S. Reed, executrix of the will of George W. M. Reed, late of Tariffville, deceased, and refusing to remove her, or to require her to file a bond, or to appoint a trustee of the residuary estate. The Superior Court set aside the decree in part and re-stated the account. The will, which was admitted to probate in 1901, gave “the use, income and improvement” of all the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
The main question in this cause is as to the meaning of the testator’s provision for his widow. He gave her a life estate in all that he should leave, “ with the privilege of expending from time to time so much of the principal of said estate as she may find necessary for her comfortable support and maintenance ”; and created a remainder over in favor of collateral relatives.
The remaindermen, who appealed from the probate decree, tendered in their reasons of appeal no other issue in regard to the character of Mrs. Reed’s expenditures from the principal than that they were not needed for her…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- St. Leger's Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1867
- Hoxie v. FinneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Mathews' Appeal From ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1900
- Little v. GeerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1897
- Lawrence v. BeardsleySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1901
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