Legal Opinion
MacGowan v. Barber
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 14, 1942No. 225PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHASE, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, the adopted daughter of John Warren Taylor, late of Bennington, Vermont, having been disinherited by his last will and testament and having unsuccessfully contested the probate of that instrument by which both real estate and personal property in Vermont and elsewhere were left to named beneficiaries, brought her bill in equity in the District Court for the District of Vermont against the executors and beneficiaries under the will to secure the benefit of a contract she alleged the testator had made with her when she was a child of eleven to leave her all…
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