Tator v. Valden

The complaint in this action alleges these material facts: The defendant’s testatrix was the widow of Ebenezer A. Hoyt who died in 1923 a resident of Ridgefield, owning a substantial estate of real and personal property and leaving two wills, one executed in 1886 devising all his property to her and the other in 1912, the only alleged provision of which revoked the 1886 will. Shortly after Ebenezer’s death, his brother Charles learned the contents of the two wills and threatened to protest probating of the 1912 will as a distribution of Ebenezer’s property unfair to his blood relatives. To…