Simmons v. Hubbard
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Civil action against the executors of and trustees under the will of Isaiah Pratt, to recover the amount of an annuity given the plaintiff, and praying for a construction of the will and an allowance of all the costs of the litigation out of the estate; brought to the Superior Court in Middle-sex County. Facts found and case reserved for advice. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
Isaiah Pratt of Essex died in 1879, aged sixty-five, childless and unmarried,' disposing of an estate amounting to about $93,000 by a will dated in 1875. Of the legatees named therein Mary Pratt is his sister, a widow and about seventy-eight years of age; Mary L. Simmons and Mary Simmons were friends.
By the second and third clauses of the will the testator bequeathed his entire estate to trustees, who are directed to pay the income therefrom to his sister Mary Pratt, semiannually during her life; by the fourth and fifth, after her death to pay an annuity of fourteen hundred dollars to his…
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