Lawlor v. Holohan
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to determine the title to real estate under Chap. 66 of the Pub. Acts of 1893, involving the construction of the will of John Galvin of Waterbury, deceased, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, .Hall, J., where judgment was rendered for the defendant Catherine Holohan, from which the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The ease is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTobbance, J.
John Galvin made the will in question, in 1889, and died in 1894. He left surviving him, as Ms next of kin, one daughter, Catherine Holohan, a married woman, one of the defendants, certain children of said daughter, and the plaintiff John P. Lawlor, son of a deceased daughter. John P. Lawlor, the grandson, “is and ever has been childless.” The questions M the case arise under the Mnth clause of the will, wMch reads as follows: “ I give and devise to my grandson, John P. Lawlor, all my real estate on Union street; also all the land on the south side of Ray street on the Abrigador; also a piece…
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