Curtiss' Appeal From Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court in Litchfield County, Case, J., affirming an order of the Court of Probate for the district of Woodbury which required certain land of an intestate to be distributed as ancestral estate.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, C. J.
This controversy relates to the descent of certain land in this State, and the controlling facts in the case are in substance these : Burritt Tuttle and his wife Julia intermarried before April 20th, 1877, and the sole issue of the marriage was a son, Walter C. Tuttle. In 1878 Julia owned the land in question in fee, and in December of that year her husband joined with her in a deed conveying said land in fee to Albert Tuttle. Subsequently, in April, 1880, Albert Tuttle conveyed said land in fee by deed to Burritt Tuttle. Both deeds, after they were delivered, were kept together in the house…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Ketchum v. CorseSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
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